We generate an annual GASB depreciation report that became too big for
paper. We simply began
putting those same print lines into an export record with the column
spaces replaced by "," 's and named it as ".CSV". You need a programmer
to do this but you can generate almost any size excel file and there are
products like Nebula XL that apply excel formatting. Would save the
email recipient any manipulation.
Dale
On 02/28/2014 02:31 PM, Jeff Lettau wrote:
Without knowing exactly what you are doing, why not take a look at ODBC and
linking an excel sheet to your database and use the powerpivot to create your
report?
If you are really doing a ETL you need a tool or a programmer.
I've pulled over 300k worth of records without an issue. Although the record
set was not 200 columns, but I'd bet you could get down to under 50 then do
calculations in excel, then pivot the data to the report.
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Subject: Re: [U2] Reporting Tools
On 2/28/14, 9:29 AM, Jeff Lettau wrote:
In the past I've made dictionary names that are very short to save characters.
But my real reason for responding is I can't help but wonder what you need 200+
columns for? My first instinct when hearing this is that a report is not what
you need.
To be clear - this is not MY choice of report, I'm trying to explain that they are using
a "report" as a poor person's ETL tool to dump vast amount of data to Excel and
manipulate offline. But I though I'd ask the question anyway.
How many rows are in this report?
Perhaps 10,000 - 30,000
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Jeffrey Butera, PhD
Associate Director for Application and Web Services Information Technology
Hampshire College
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