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On 2016-02-07 11:23, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> What is the problem? It is up to a DB client to handle these issues. An
> ODBC driver and DB clients do all this. The single reason for all this
> is bogus design.

Ther is none. Of course they can access it with ODBC. That's
part of what the thread is about.

Users access the RDBMS via SQL into excel.
Some people think that is awful around here,
However it gives the possiblity for users to create
user defined queriers so the can pivot around as they like.

With Standard SQL as the tool in one hand,
and the data model of the system in the other.

Designing your own reports AS YOU WANT, without having
to write programs th go from one binary storage to csv-files...

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Björn