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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada package registry?
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 09:19:30 +0100
Date: 2016-02-08T09:19:30+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n99j39$dv0$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n987mt$ch5$1@dont-email.me

On 07/02/2016 21:02, Björn Lundin wrote:
> 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,

What for? If the user sees the DB table directly in Excel this is 
everything he needs.

> However it gives the possiblity for users to create
> user defined queriers so the can pivot around as they like.

I don't know customers who write SQL queries. Ours demand that the data 
were exported into Excel from some GUI application. That does not stop 
them requiring an SQL interface, but this is a typical nice-to-have 
feature nobody actually uses.

> 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...

It would be much simpler to do in Excel.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-08  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 132+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-29  1:13 Ada package registry? olivier.henley
2016-01-29  3:43 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-01-29 22:06   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-01-30 17:21     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2016-01-29 14:20 ` David Botton
2016-01-29 22:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-01-30  7:35   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-01-30 22:14     ` Tero Koskinen
2016-01-31  7:51       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-01-31 15:52         ` Mart van de Wege
2016-01-31 16:21           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-01-31 19:16             ` olivier.henley
2016-02-01 23:22       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-05 19:52         ` Tero Koskinen
2016-02-05 20:42           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-06  1:25           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-06  6:09             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-02-08 22:54               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-06 23:08             ` AdaMagica
2016-02-07  7:08             ` gautier_niouzes
2016-02-07  8:50             ` gautier_niouzes
2016-02-08 22:58               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-07 10:24             ` gautier_niouzes
2016-01-31 19:10 ` olivier.henley
2016-02-02  0:44   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-02 18:45     ` Shark8
2016-02-02 20:14       ` gautier_niouzes
2016-02-02 20:46         ` Shark8
2016-02-02 21:32           ` gautier_niouzes
2016-02-03  4:21             ` Shark8
2016-02-03  9:39               ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-02 22:51       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-03  4:16         ` Shark8
2016-02-01  8:30 ` Thomas Løcke
2016-02-01  9:32   ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-02  8:54     ` Thomas Løcke
2016-02-02 14:51       ` jsquirek
2016-02-02 18:25         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-02 20:05         ` gautier_niouzes
2016-02-02 20:58         ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-02 23:06       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-03  7:15         ` Pascal Obry
2016-02-03 22:11           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-04  6:51             ` Pascal Obry
2016-02-04 20:52               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-05  7:11                 ` Pascal Obry
2016-02-06  1:11                   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-04  9:05             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-04  9:20               ` Mark Carroll
2016-02-04 12:58               ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2016-02-04 21:03               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-05  8:31                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-04 16:52             ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-04 16:59               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-04 17:29                 ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-04 21:21                   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-04 22:04                     ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-05  8:51                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-05 22:06                         ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-06  0:30                       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-06 23:26                         ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-07  0:16                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-02-07  8:02                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-07  8:36                               ` gautier_niouzes
2016-02-07  8:52                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-07 10:06                                   ` gautier_niouzes
2016-02-07 10:23                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-07 20:02                                       ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-08  8:19                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2016-02-07 10:00                               ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-07 10:18                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-07 19:27                                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-07 19:47                                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-07 19:54                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-07 22:56                                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-08  8:22                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-07 20:11                                 ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-07 22:11                                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-08  8:16                                     ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-07 19:57                               ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-08  8:25                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-08 22:42                               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-07 20:07                             ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-08  8:38                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-08 18:24                                 ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-08 22:38                           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-09 20:56                             ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-05 12:54                     ` G.B.
2016-02-05 13:27                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-05 15:53                         ` G.B.
2016-02-05 16:45                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-05 17:58                             ` G.B.
2016-02-05 18:47                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-07  9:40                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-07 10:13                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-07 19:21                                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-07 19:57                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-07 22:16                                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-08  8:20                                           ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-08  9:03                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-08 10:08                                             ` G.B.
2016-02-08 13:42                                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-06  0:49                       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-07  8:42                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-02-04 21:09               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-05  8:59                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-06  0:04                   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-06  8:54                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-08 23:02                       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-09  8:50                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-11  1:37                           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-11  8:25                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-02-11 22:00                               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-06 18:48 ` olivier.henley
2016-02-09  0:05   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-09  3:50     ` Shark8
2016-02-11  1:40       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-09  8:04     ` Thomas Løcke
2016-02-09 13:33       ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-02-09 14:58         ` Shark8
2016-02-11  1:46         ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-11  5:19           ` Shark8
2016-02-09 18:08       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-02-09 21:00         ` Shark8
2016-02-09 21:07     ` Björn Lundin
2016-02-09 21:31       ` Shark8
2016-02-09 23:47         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-02-10  5:10         ` J-P. Rosen
2016-02-11  1:51       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-02-12 16:05 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-02-13  5:42   ` olivier.henley
2016-02-13 12:20     ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
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