SQL Report Writers For Unix?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday January 21, 2001 @05:15PM from the data-analysis-on-hardcopy dept.

Chris27183 asks: "I'm currently using MySQL with PHP on Linux, and love it very much. I'm very glad to do away with Access in favor of a database based in Unix. However, there is one stipulation. At first glance, there does not appear to be a free report writer (or even a sql to latex translator) like that of access. I'm just trying to do simple things like mailing labels and tabular lists, and it would be a great help to not have to reimport data into access to perform these seemingly simple tasks."

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HTML not great for printing by brlewis · 2001-01-22 03:07 · Score: 3

The original poster's mention of LaTeX would seem to indicate interest in printed reports, which HTML was not designed for. For example, HTML does not allow for having column headers repeat at the top of every printed page, but the LaTeX supertabular environment does.

At my company I'm doing printable database-driven reports using BRL and pdflatex. If anyone wants help doing it the same way, let me know.