Re: Reports generator
| From: | Paul M Foster | Date: | Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:22:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Reports generator | ||
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:31:30AM -0800, Allen McCabe wrote:
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> SIDE QUESTION: What do you think of my use of serialization? I don't see a
> need to store duplicate information in new tables, and thought serializing
> these one shot reports the best solution.
I couldn't really find a good reason to store the serialized
representation of the queries, to be honest. In fact, the only reason I
would store the serialized representation of anything is as a last
resort, when no other way of storing it makes sense.
Going back to the methodology I covered in my previous email, I wouldn't
store the results of a query in a database. If you find you simply must
save the results, just jam the whole HTML page into a string and store
that (unless I'm misunderstanding what you're doing). Otherwise, just
generate the report in real time.
Paul
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Paul M. Foster