| From: | Ow Mun Heng <Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert James <srobertjames(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Geoffrey <lists(at)serioustechnology(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: reporting tools |
| Date: | 2007-10-16 04:13:44 |
| Message-ID: | 1192508024.6562.6.camel@neuromancer.home.net |
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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.
>
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