Creating HTML Reports

Beginning with Oracle8 i Database Release 2 (Version 8.1.6), you can use SQL*Plus to generate HTML pages. Instead of spooling a report to a printer, you can write it to an HTML file for viewing on your corporate intranet. With a bit of creativity and some cascading style sheet (CSS) skills, you can generate some good-looking web pages. In this chapter, I'll revisit some of the character-based reports from Chapter 5 and show some ways to render those same reports as HTML pages.

CSS is a mechanism for specifying the format of an HTML document. One reason CSS works well for SQL*Plus-generated HTML is because your CSS styles can reside in a file separate from the spool file generated by SQL*Plus, greatly reducing the likelihood that you will need to modify your SQL*Plus script to effect formatting changes. To learn more about CSS, read Eric Meyer's Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) and Eric Meyer on CSS (New Riders).


     

Introduction to SQL*Plus

Command-Line SQL*Plus

Browser-Based SQL*Plus

A Lightning SQL Tutorial

Generating Reports with SQL*Plus

Creating HTML Reports

Advanced Reports

Writing SQL*Plus Scripts

Extracting and Loading Data

Exploring Your Database

Advanced Scripting

Tuning and Timing

The Product User Profile

Customizing Your SQL*Plus Environment

Appendix A. SQL*Plus Command Reference

Appendix B. SQL*Plus Format Elements



Oracle SQL Plus The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide (Definitive Guides)
ISBN: 0596007469
EAN: 2147483647
Year: N/A
Pages: 151

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