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I am about to start a project at work and I am leaning in the direction of just creating a webpage to be uploaded to our apache server with an embeded excel document that will be populated by SQL statements so it will be a live stream of data.

What I was wondering before I start the project is if this is a viable route or is there a better way of doing this.

Also to note the only language I am avaiable to use for delevopment is Perl 5.10.1 (Which can include shell commands from bash) and obviously HTML.

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Could you elaborate on why you need Excel? Data from a database is usually displayed in a web page using, for example, an HTML table. An Excel worksheet cannot easily be displayed on a web page. –  Andy G Jun 9 '13 at 0:50
    
No particular reason as to why I need to use excel I just thought it would be the nicest looking format. However I will look into a html table as I am looking for the simplest soultion. –  Bob Dunakey Jun 9 '13 at 1:08
    
Excel is mostly used to hold data or create exports. If it's for an application I recommend building it for the web. –  silkfire Jun 9 '13 at 18:01

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