Those of you who played with toy databases as a child may remember the song:

I’ve been working on the database
All the live-long day
I’ve been working on the database
Just to pass the time away…

Oh wait, that was about railroads, wasn’t it? 

That’s so 19th century.

I haven’t been working on the railroad, but I have been working on my MLS "mirror" database, and lately I’ve been adding some statistics reporting capabilities to it. 

To date, the statistics I can get from the report I’ve generated are not as comprehensive as my handy-dandy spreadsheet-generated statistics, but the killer thing is that I don’t have to sit and look up the data, I just pop in the zip code or county I want (city name coming soon), and the numbers pop out automagically, already formatted as HTML.

This is how I should have been doing things all along.

More to come!