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W Balboos, GHB24-Aug-15 3:49
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I wrote a Generic Reporting "application" - actually a bunch of PHP/JavaScript - that takes SQL to create an input/request form and then generates the report per user specs. There are something like 375 reports running on it at last glance (DBA heaven of some sort).

Actually - it's great because I don't have to make reports - just a mechanism for them to be generated and the mechansim to generate that.

Feature Creap has taken it's tole, with possibilities to pre-populate the report with exisiting data, have reports cascade into other reports, internal dependencies and dynamic generation of the query screens. Excel dumps, Word Dumps (rare). SMTP mail generation.

Reports can generate input which can request reports which can generate input . . .

All I have to do is make sure it's always backward compatible and essentially unbreakable. The unbreakable part isn't too bad in that my users are Developers. They get to suffer with the rabble, below.


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