- From: Dmitry Turin <html60@narod.ru>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:12:08 +0300
- To: public-html@w3.org
Good day, Thomas. TB> "Low-skill users", as you call them, won't ever be able to make OLAP TB> cubes in pure SQL. TB> They'll either use reporting tools (Crystal Reports, MS Reporting TB> Services, MS Access, Jasper Reports, etc.) or connect their Excel / TB> Open Office Calc to their database and use pivot tables, and then TB> export into HTML (or simply copy/paste into their HTML editor). No. Russian applied specialists can. It's true. Especially about physicists. TB> server-side "helper TB> classes" (their must be something in PHP doing what you have in mind I already thought about this. Look at TML http://sql4.by.ru/site/sql40/en/author/index_eng.htm TB> Let's low-skill users use tools designed for them, or just improve TB> their skills (that's how everyone began coding, isn't it?) Tools don't satisfy all needs, and job of coding must be reduced so much, as it's possible. TB> you'll want more dimensions Display is fundamentally 2D. Human vision is fundamentally 3D. Display will never show information with dimension, more than 3. TB> hard to learn for everyone There is no way, which hard or easy - there is way, which is MORE hard or easy, than another way. Let's compare at least any two ways. TB> even the 95% of people that do not need multi-dimensional tables. I already wrote, that people don't remember and confuse two things: un-impossible things, un-desirable things. People have much reflexes. Dmitry Turin http://html6.by.ru http://sql4.by.ru http://computer2.by.ru
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