Simple BI tool

I am trying to create a tool to create reports from my database, a simple business intelligence tool, but don't know how to design the tables to store the reports. Does anyone have any ideas on how to determine table relations and such just to point me in the right direction :-)

SQL Developer comes with Reports section containing some predefined reports the user can modify and add his own reports to. I never took time to explore it, but you might take a look at to see how things are handled there.
SQL Developer has it's own forum too {forum:id=260}
Regards
Etbin
Edited by: Etbin on 9.2.2013 17:47
forum info added

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