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.
>
