<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Aleph Reports Combining SQL and Excel</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Steve</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Thomas</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Steve Thomas, Local Systems Development Coordinator, University of Tennessee.&#13;
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This presentation will show how a few simple SQL scripts, when combined with the sort and compare features of Excel, may be used to prepare some powerful reports.  For example, in answer to a request for a report of duplicate holdings, the presenter was able to reduce the initial output file of over 69,000 book items into a report of less than 12,000 duplicate items by comparing call number and description data. </mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Aleph</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8601">2009-05-08</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Conference or Workshop Item</mods:genre></mods:mods>