Future direction: reports founded on SQL repository.

[Colin Law]

On 5 February 2015 at 22:29, Allen S. Rout <asr at ufl.edu> wrote:
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> I've seen several references here to the policy direction that SQL
> (-lite or my-, or otherwise) will be the future preferred datastore.
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> Associated with these, there are discussions that the future of
> reporting interfaces will likely be through some flavor of reporting
> tool founded on the SQL interfaces.
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> There are FAQ entries which discourage SQL backend uses for most users.

In case it is of interest I use the xml format day to day then at the
end of each month I Save As to mysql to generate an up to date sql db
and then return to the xml file.  Then I run my SQL reports against
the db.  That would not work if you need to do reports on a day to day
basis of course.

Colin