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Preface

Part I

1 Before You Install

1.1 What You Receive

1.2 Hardware and Software Requirements

1.2.1 Reports Developer

1.2.2 Related Software

1.3 Where to Install Oracle

1.4 New Install versus Upgrade

1.5 Deployment on Web or Client/Server

1.6 Check the Release Notes

1.6.1 Obtaining the Release Notes

1.6.2 Accessing the Release Notes

2 Installing as a New Customer

2.1 Installing the Design-Time Components

2.1.1 Step 1: Determining the Reports Server Parameters

2.1.2 Step 2: Start the Oracle Installer

2.1.3 Step 3: Choose Installation Settings

2.1.4 Step 4: Choose the Application

2.1.5 Step 5: Choose an Install Method

2.2 Installing the Runtime Components

2.3 Connecting to the Oracle Server

2.3.1 Step One: Install the Server

2.3.2 Step Two: Specify the TNS Names

3 Installing as an Upgrade

3.1 Upgrading the Product

3.1.1 Version Issues

3.1.2 Running the Oracle Installer

3.1.3 Server Considerations:

3.2 Upgrading Your Applications

3.2.1 Redeploying Your Applications on the Web

4 Deinstalling

4.1 Removing the Reports Developer Product

4.1.1 Stopping services

4.1.2 Removing Reports Developer

5 Setting Up Tables to Store Applications

5.1 Building the Database Tables

5.1.1 Step 1: Installing the SQL scripts with the Oracle Installer

5.1.2 Step 2: Building the Oracle Developer database tables

5.2 Proper Use of these Tables

5.3 Granting and Revoking User Access

5.3.1 Granting access to the database tables

5.3.2 Revoking access to the database tables

5.4 Deleting the Database Tables

5.5 Upgrading the Database Tables

5.5.1 Step 1: Back up the database contents

6 What's Next?

6.1 If You're a New Reports Developer

6.2 If You're an Experienced Reports Developer

Part II Appendix

A Oracle Express

A.1 Configuring Reports for Oracle Express

A.1.1 Client side configuration

A.1.2 Server side configuration

A.2 Buffer Size for Express Data

A.2.1 Default buffer size

A.2.2 Buffer sizes

A.2.3 Specifying the buffer size

A.2.4 Example setting for a buffer size

A.3 Single-Byte Character Sets

A.3.1 Specifying the character set from Express

A.3.2 Example setting for a character set

A.3.3 Languages

A.3.4 Territories

A.3.5 Storage character sets

A.4 Number Ranges for Express Data

A.4.1 Very large positive or negative numbers

A.4.2 Rounding very small numbers

A.4.3 Specifying the rounding setting

A.4.4 Example setting for rounding

A.5 Indents in Hierarchical Express Data

A.5.1 Example settings for hierarchal data

Part III Index

Index