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in-db improvement

Hi,

 

we use a lot the in-db tools to join our database and filter before extracting (seems logic), but to do it dynamically we have to use the dynamic input in db, which allows to input a kind of parameter for the dates, calculated locally and easily or even based on a parameter table in excel or whatever, it would be great to be able to dynamically plug a not in db tools to be able to have some parameters for filters or for the connect in-db. The thing is when yu use dynamic input in-db, you loose the code-free part and it can be harder to maintain for non sql users who are just used to do simple queries.

You could say that an analytic application could do the trick or even developp a macro to do so, but it would be complicated to do so with hundreds of tables.

 

Hope it will be interesting for others!

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mphillips
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It'd be really handy to have a Dynamic Input In-DB tool closer aligned in functionality/flexibility to the Dynamic Input tool. Limiting the input to a single query isn't very dynamic.