View current SQL table data witout using applications or exporting.?

Let me make sure I understand. You have a database where data is being constantly updated during the day. Then you need a report on some of that data to be made available to users. But you do not want to write any application for that ? Not even a simple web application that your users would access to get an up to date report ? So you are thinking about making that report available in some automated mode, and user would then access this report. That approach obviously then requires some automated way to produce the report, put it somewhere and let users grab it from that "somewhere". There are three aspects to that problem: 1) How to automate the production of the report. You can do that using a simple shell script that (for Oracle) invokes SQLPLUS and calls the proper SQL statements or PL/SQL procedure to produce the report and save it somewhere on disk. Make sure that script is run at regular intervals according to your needs (like every hour) using simple schedulin (cron jobs on unix, "at" on windows). Another way is to use the scheduler of the Oracle database (DBMS_SCHEDULER) and have the database drive the process. 2) How to make the report available to the users: that all depends on who the users are and how they are connecting to your servers. You could just place the report in some shared disk and give users shared access to that shared area (like a shared network drive on windows or a nfs-mount on Unix). If your users are external, then the simplest is to use a web server: just publish the report as an html page and send the URL to the users. Or you could also make it available via an ftp server. 3) How to notify the users that a new report is available. You can make the script that produces the report send an email to the interested users. Then again, you could then just send the whole report by email. Sending email is again easily done from the Oracle database. Note that obviously the report will never show the accurate real-time state of our data since it will be produced at regular intervals.