Dealing With “Cannot Get List Of Connections” 9iAS Discoverer Error

Monday, November 24th, 2003 by Mark Rittman

Just came across an interesting error when plugging a new Discoverer mid-tier instance into an existing 9iAS Farm. The Discoverer server was running on Windows 2000, the server on Unix.
When I tried to create the first public connection (to check that Discoverer portlets work), I got the error message “Cannot get a list of connections. […]

Differences Between Discoverer Desktop, Plus, Viewer and Portlets

Friday, October 31st, 2003 by Mark Rittman

“Hi Mark. Do you know where I can find a comparison between the Discoverer Client/Server versus the Discoverer Intranet versions?”

If you’re interested, i’ve put together an explanation of the differences between the different Oracle Discoverer client tools, which you can take a look at here.

ITToolbox On Differences Between Reports & Discoverer

Sunday, September 28th, 2003 by Mark Rittman

“We are trying to decide which reporting tool to use. What are some of the differences between Oracle Reports and Discoverer?”

Enabling SSO Support For Discoverer 9iAS

Thursday, August 21st, 2003 by Mark Rittman

Oracle Discoverer is the primary query and reporting tool that I use on data warehousing projects, and the latest version, Oracle 9iAS Discoverer, comes bundled with the Oracle 9i Application Server. With release 2 of 9iAS, Discoverer uses the Single Sign-on server (known as SSO) within 9iAS to provide authentication and security. One thing that […]