Posted by Alexander Kuznetsov on 10/18/30 11:30

>One of the other basic concepts is that you do reports in the front end
>and not in the database

which in many cases is very inefficient to put it mildly. Front ends do
change way more frequently than back ends. Several front ends may
connect to one and the same back end. For instance, if I have
- Java beans
- COM objects
- Crystal Reports
- C++ modules running on Linux
- ASP.Net Web pages

accessing one and the same database, why should anyone redo one and the
same simple tedious work line numbering lines 5 times?
Any decent database developer can do it just once, and easily.
If Crystal Reports are phased out and replaced by something else, the
database developers' work will still be in place, ready to be utilized
by whatever else comes into play next

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