If anyone just wants to pull some inventory data into Excel, its easy to do and it doesn't require a purchased ODBC driver. Here's a blog post on how to go about it.
http://lashomb.com/blog/2013/10/28/simple-reporting-in-casper-9/
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Simple Reporting in Casper 9
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+4As a note of caution, try to create a read-only account for reporting and use that instead of root. One wrong command and your DB is hosed with the typical level of access root offers.
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