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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:15:30 +1100
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On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>         Producing fancy reports for the CEO may be the last thing you
> implement, as it relies upon having a stable database design, business
> logic, and data entry.

>From the sound of things, it might be the ONLY thing to implement,
though, if the answer to your previous question is "Yes" (that is, if
everything's already in a big fat database). Otherwise, the OP's going
to be replicating stuff that businesses pay good money for - a full-on
accounting and warehousing system.

ChrisA