On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 23:59 -0400, Robert James wrote: > Can you clarify the need / value added for reporting tool, over just > running queries and packaging the output in HTML (with a little CSS > for styling, you can get near PDF quality). This can be done in SQL > and a tad of PHP (or Ruby). >
Not all users w/ have like to see pre-prepared queries. Some will have extra requirements eg: slice the data etc. So, in these circumstances, drill down is very important. > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
