Introduction

The first step in writing the second edition of the Oracle Discoverer Handbook was to determine who our audience was. In the first edition, we limited the content to the end-user edition of Discoverer, with the focus primarily on Desktop. In this edition, we have changed our target audience to cover not only end-users but administrators as well. The focus for end-users has switched to Discoverer Plus. However, Desktop is still covered, and we have also included information on both Viewer and Portal. We felt we would be doing our readers a disservice if we did not include the Administration Edition in this book; we have, therefore, added a complete new section dedicated to administrators.

Our second challenge was deciding which release ...

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