Well, other than the fact that going directly to the db well in many instances not give you what you want in a remedy sence, there is the fact that your method pulled from the same db, and has the same data, so yours could be argued to be more efficient, and just as pure
On Monday, March 25, 2013, Alan Truelove <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > I am running 6 Crystal Reports (70 of each) from the same SQL dataset (saved as a CSV text file) extracted from Remedy (using API, and getting only the 11 fields I need (out of 160..) and 1 week's worth of data out of several years.. > This works just fine. > Management insists that going to the original database for each of the 420 reports is somehow 'purer' (takes much much longer...) > Any comment welcome, in confidence of course... > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
