In a recent note, Anthony Saul Babonas said: > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:39:53 -0500 > > The SAPster replied "there won't be any more reports." Then the room went > totally silent and we listened to the lights buzz for a minute or 2. He went > on to explain that reports are old school thinking, in effect a copy of a > database, re-arranged and summarized, made nice for the simple reason that > the original database isn't. Using his software the database would already > be "nice", hence no need to run reports, hence no need to have a report > management system. > I suspect you slightly misrepresent the SAPster's position. It's less likely that he said "the database would already be 'nice'," and more likely that queries on the data base could be formulated to give "nice" usable output. It makes little sense to me to generate reports and search the reports when the rationale for existence of the data base is that it support queries.
There's little argument for the older technique beyond the tenuous "We've always done it that way!" (OK; there are a wealth of processes that take the reports as input and would need to be redesigned.) -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
