See this is where Excel ... well, excels!
Pivot tables do these data pulls pretty easy
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Please don't tell that to any manager. They'll misinterpret it.
Nah this is one of those slick work deals, legit all you need to do is list all your entries, order a pivot table, and then you can just arrange your variables to display however you want them to, do a little format pizaz, and voila, here's that "report" you asked for!
Is it ironic?
Oooh I had a 45 second coughing fit- thanks flu and you dear poster!
Me right now, discovering that our archives data have file sizes... sometimes in bytes, sometimes in kilobytes. I found some pattern this morning thinking I could know which was which, then the pattern collapsed at some date in the past.
Joy.
You forgot the 3 paragraph WHERE clause to get every data point of a wednesday of an even year of a person who stubbed their toes on a roomba in their parent's basement.