OpenSolaris may be having a hard time at Oracle, but months after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Java and MySQL are still viewed positively by users.

With Inetsoft’s MySQL reporting tool, enterprises can now convert messy and raw data into intuitive reports. These web-based reports are easy to use and easy to create with a simple yet powerful ...

Web reports can be produced in a lot of ways using any of the many server-side programming technologies, such as PHP, JSPs, Perl scripts and the like. Standalone desktop reporting tools also are ...

None of the mysql or mysqli options appear to affect error reporting.<BR><BR>Yes, I know all the reasons this is a bad idea. In my particular situation, it's desirable behavior.

The incompatibility happens when building reports with Visual Studio 2008 and then deploying those report definitions (RDL files) onto SQL 2005 Reporting Services.