Access XP - great for XML reports
by "Joshua Graham" <JoshuaGraham(at)grahamis.com>
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I'm one of those "snobs" who thinks Access is dinky (because it is) and not
capable of department- or enterprise-scale systems (because it isn't). It's
something my mother uses for her recipes, and that's about where I reckon it
should stay.
Nevertheless, some ago one of our regional directors for Microsoft here
down-under showed a few of us Access XP and it's XML-based report
generation. (I have left it this long due to the request to not discuss the
technology until later).
Forget Crystal, Cognos and the rest. This was great. Of course if you're
using Jet, the data access sucks still but the output is magnificent. I had
some minor comments on the ASP and other code generated by the wizard, but
the XML and CSS output for report templates and an executed report was of
suprisingly good quality. The rendered reports were flawless (as far as I
could find) with precision positioning and no screw-ups.
So, the ugly duckling may have layed a golden egg. It certainly dances all
over any other *ML-based report generation. I'll probably actually use
Access now - but ONLY for the XML report wizard (off an ASP and SQL
backend). Let's hope they build the same wizard into Visual Studio instead
of the lame Crystal Reports cut down that's back in.
Take a look for yourself,
Josh.
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Joshua Graham
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Graham Information Science Pty Ltd
e: JoshuaGraham(at)grahamis.com
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