It will access any PDO database (mysql included) and also allows native support for Oracle.  We use it for reporting against oracle, but also used it to add chat logs to the Openfire chat server: another mysql application.

 

I'm working on adding Postgres native support as well in order to take advantage of some of the cool XML specific technologies in postgres.

 

If you have any trouble using it, file issues on the issue queue. 

 

Dave

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From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of prothero
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 10:44 AM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Report from an arbitrary database

Thanks, Dave. This may be useful for another application I'm thinking of, as long as it will access external mySQL databases.

Bill

William A. Prothero

http://earthednet.org/

On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Metzler, David wrote:

I'm not sure what you're expecting drupal to do vs. your online application.  But if you need to produce a report from an arbitrary database, with the context of a drupal site (as your subject suggests), you might consider giving http://drupal.org/project/forena a try.

Dave

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