Whilst in these modern days of hi-DPI screens and anti-aliased lines, I still love using Chartist - I know all of the keyboard shortcuts and I can use it to create a diagram faster than using anything else.

Does someone have a patch for it or something?

Thanks, Nick.

I have two young children, a boy and a girl. They both love playing Roblox, and I play along with them too, and their friends join in as well. Yes, they both always want more Robux, but let's look at this from a different perspective:

They create their own worlds - often amazing, it's not like they can run out of LEGO pieces, their creativity is their only barrier. In COVID lockdown, they could carry on playing with their friends, despite not being physically together. Humans still monitor and care for the "game", yes, some bad actors might get through occasionally, but on the whole, it's a safe and well-controlled, fun place to be. I used the concept of a Roblox Avatar to gently explain to my children, that people online might not be all they pretend to be - after all, in some games, I'm a super weight-lifter with a six-pack, and I have wings too :-O We all laughed. It's already taught both my children some genuine life-lessons - working in a pizza shop and doing deliveries, earning money, deciding how to lay out their dream houses (and Theme Parks!), and so on - plus, the importance of locking the door to keep the "bad guys" out.

All this, whilst having fun. Roblox is a force for good - if you pay the odd time for some credits, then so what, developers and us creatives also have to keep the roof over our heads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peuTnilEv9g

I suspect the reason why nobody has commented so far isn’t because they didn’t like it, but rather, they entered and never came back… :-)

I’m a grizzled IT veteran – I know all about relational database design, implementation, covering indexes, query plans, query optimisation, window functions – you name it, I’ve likely done it.

I just want a simple lightweight reporting tool (emphasis on the simple) that I can enter a SQL query into, and the query will run against a live data source (comparatively tiny data volumes by modern standards), and the results can be displayed either as a table, or as a chart.

That’s it – I would have expected this to be a solved problem by now; back when I was a young ‘lad, there were products like Crystal Reports, COGNOS, and so on, that could do this easily, and indeed, that level of simplicity is all I’m looking for now. I’m running a small startup and simply want to grab some basic reports, live, from our database – exporting these to PDF etc would be nice, but not required, screen-only is fine.

I’ve wasted a complete day looking for simple reporting tools, but nobody seems to do them anymore. I don’t want enterprise data connectors, embedded web servers, anything browser-based, scheduled reports, auto-emailing, pre-arranged sales-based conference calls, proprietary query languages, monthly subscriptions and so forth.

The closest I got today was linking tables from SQL Server into MS Access on O365, which almost did what I want, but adding new tables, and refreshing column lists is a frustrating pain. I tried Excel via “Get Data” – but it’s not really “for” this, and I don’t want to keep having to refresh data.

I feel like I want nano, but everyone only sells emacs :-) Many thanks in advance for any suggestions you can make.

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