Yep, the most useful program I ever wrote for business was a Perl script that ran SQL against a Sybase database and sent the output as a spreadsheet. Multiple

Yep, the most useful program I ever wrote for business was a Perl script that ran SQL against a Sybase database and sent the output as a spreadsheet. Multiple return sets went on multiple sheets. Took the column names from the return sets and did decent formating of data. Then the user would do all the fun stuff.