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This is why I love CodeProject. So many ideas and people willing to share them. Professionals all.
My contract company is very selective in how it spends s/w $$. If a manager hears "free", they are all in. Corporate wise, they are gung-ho for using Microsoft out the wazoo. I won't mention the time I asked for a Linux VM. Heads exploded, others turned 360 degrees, and objects started moving on their own. lol.
For the ad-hoc query case, Excel will work for me. For the production system I need to develop, the others are possible solutions.
Thanks again
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Let me ask, what do the users want? Are they looking for the data, specific page layout, etc?
I've started delivering 2 types of reports. Grid Reports (Simply a dynamic grid result of a query you can manipulate and save to Excel), AND real Reports created with a designer (FastReports).
It depends on what they need, and how they intend to use them. The grid tools I have will do subtotals, and allow the users to dynamically group things, and apply their own additional filters.
The core concept is: Query + Bind Variables [Filters, etc] -> Results.
I like the "default" the bind variables with appropriate values, and therefore use a UNION of select "VarName","VarVal" expressions (select 'Year' as VarName, Year(now()) as VarVal) and then display that in an editable vertical grid for the user...
Then apply them to the base query. It lets me put all the report queries/params in the database, and makes it easy to add without updating the program...
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fair question  . user group 1 does not know, they want to be able to do ad-hoc reports to see what they can do.
group 2 is a production group, they are easy. I need to replicate the reports they have now, and then we will see. The reports they have now are driven by flat files and FORTRAN. I kid you not.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've used Microsoft RDLC Reports for quite some time. It comes with visual studio by default and has tons of features. No external dependencies needed for development and in deployment machines. We can do grouping, sorting, charts and connect to different databases like Sql Server and Oracle. I moved from crystal reports to RDLC eventually.
Bharath
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will check it out. Thanks
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Chemical & Engineering News[^] has allowed free access to it's COVID articles. Everyone can learn something.
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No thanks. I am currently maxed out on COVID.
When they say I can get my vaccine, I will get that and move on with my life. I will leave the bloody science to the professionals to worry about.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Everyone can learn something.
That would imply they actually want to...
BTW thanks for the link. I am one of those who will have a look.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I recommend you to the following excerpts from the text:
Quote: The Royal Mint defended its design but did not specifically respond to the criticism, telling CNN: "The coin depicts the artist's interpretation of the various machines featured in War of the Worlds and the Invisible Man."
And Chris Costello, the coin's designer, insisted he was intentionally reinterpreting imagery from Wells' works for a modern audience.
In the former, it's the Royal Mint trying to cover it's Royal Ass by using the "artist's interpretation" as the catchall defense. It does help me better understand that "The Guardian" and 'BBC News" are, indeed, ingrained into the culture: if you don't like the facts, adjust them until you do.
As for the second paragraph in the quote - let's take the "artist's" point at face value: he knows the modern audience . . . pathetic and ignorant thralls to Google on their hand-held devices.
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'artists interpretation' is just BS for 'no he didnt do his homework and we need a story to cover it up so we dont look like the idiots we obviously are'.
everytime i hear lies and BS from people or companies that try to pathetically convince you of something other than what you know is true, it just makes me even more cynical, and there's so much of it about !!
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It makes you wonder about accounting practices at the Royal Mint if that's how they count: "one, two, four, ... seven, ... π ..."
And the Invisible man - who was after all no gentleman - wore a "wide-brimmed hat" rather than a top hat.
Clearly, there are no gentlemen of quality at the mint these days ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Governments are all the same: one for you, two for me.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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The next stage is the invisible coin...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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They already have the virtual coin so just a matter of time.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: virtual coin
bitcoin?
Software Zen: delete this;
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OriginalGriff wrote: It makes you wonder about accounting practices at the Royal Mint if that's how they count
No, it doesn't. The shenanigans of State banks make the managements of private banks look like amateurs!
OriginalGriff wrote: there are no gentlemen of quality literate people at the mint these days
FTFY
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Clearly the artist is the same kind of ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) that "re-interprets" classic things because they were too lazy to actually consult the source material.
Then someone at The Mint who doesn't really give a sh*t about literature just rubber-stamps it.
As Shakespeare said on his Twitter feed... "That's why we don't have nice things anymore!"
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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� Forogar � wrote: As Shakespeare said on his Twitter feed... "That's why we don't can't have nice things anymore!"
FTFY!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And the stupid thing is, that had any of the people involved taken a trip here to Woking, they could have seen one of the original models standing on the pavement. War of the Worlds was written while Wells was living here, and many of the locations are within walking distance of our house.
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What, and travel 25 miles (as the crow flies) from the City?!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Even though it is messed up, I still think it is cool. Wish I could get one in the states.
“Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.”
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Nope.
Exhibit A: All the recent articles blathering about "monoliths" made out of multiple pieces of metal.
The prosecution rests.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I do.
I blame Spell checkers myself.
Bookworm
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