Thank you for the clarification. On Apr 21, 2:20 pm, Remy Blank <[email protected]> wrote: > potter wrote: > > I thought the SQL report system was deprecated also and was going to > > be eventually removed. However, rblank made a comment on one of my > > tickets (http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/8559#comment:1) which says > > that it is not going away anytime soon. > > To clarify that statement: > > - We try hard to make the query module as powerful, flexible, and easy > to use as possible. As such, it should be able to solve a large > percentage of use cases. Also, being field-based makes it usable by > "normal" people (i.e. people who don't know SQL :). > > - Being able to use SQL for reports makes them inherently more powerful > than the query module. I'd be very surprised (and impressed!) if we were > able to become as powerful with queries. > > - The query module is limited to querying the ticket table, whereas > reports can query the whole database. > > This should explain why we encourage the use of the query module, but > that reports still aren't going to go away. > > -- Remy
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