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by logophobia 2855 days ago
ETL, that way you can also ensure your data gets put in a format that'd make it easy to report on.

Granted, it's not quite as quick as this, and not suited for "one-off" reporting, but it's a lot more flexible. Put things in a nice star schema and you have a good way to do analytics on your data.