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I have a set of old queries (from the 1990's) - and to get results user would open an (old) Oracle tool, run multiple queries in one go and then either manually save the output to a file to generate a big report - or using the SPOOL command to output directly to a file.

Eventually I want to break this up and generate a "proper" report.

Meanwhile I need a temporary solution, is there any ODAC component than can achieve this? I did have a look, but not sure what I should be looking for..

A typical and very much simplified, example would be - the main select-from-tables repeated about 10 times for different queries with different result sets:
I assume I can omit the SET and SPOOL commands, but to is there a way to get the content in one text stream?
I have tried a few "workarounds" but there is always something.

Creating reports of any complexity can be realized using components specially designed for these purposes. You can use ODAC with the most popular systems such as FastReport, QuickReport, and PerortBuilder. Examples of using reporting systems are given in our Demo.

Thank you for your reply,

As I explained - I realize I should be using dedicated tools, this is the way I normally implement reports, and the way I will implement in future releases.

I am asking this because there is an urgent call for a temporary solution that can be used to run dozens of reports that have been produced this way for decades. There is not time to implemente every report using proper tools.

The only way to save data from a dataset is to call SaveToXML for each query : https://docs.devart.com/odac/devart.dac ... tream).htm

Thank you for the reply, probably there is no solution in your components, but this is not a dataset in any sense, this is a text output from multiple queries, each with it's own result set, different columns, and then some headlines between.

As I understand, you want to combine output from multiple queries into a single text output. You can use OraQuery to run queries and save the results to a file in the XML format, which you can later parse and produce a report.

MaximG wrote: ↑Fri 31 Dec 2021 11:58 The only way to save data from a dataset is to call SaveToXML for each query : Spider Solitairehttps://docs.devart.com/odac/devart.dac ... tream).htm

Thank you for answering, however this is a text output from several searches, each with its own result set, columns, and headers.

Indeed, a standard dataset component cannot provide a unified text output from disparate queries. This task can be accomplished by using specialized reporting components.