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title: "Charting Your Path: Reporting Tool Freedom with Clarity's SQL Access"
description: Clarity Connect 2024 - Foundations Track Description
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# [Charting Your Path: Reporting Tool Freedom with Clarity's SQL Access](https://www.bitfocus.com/clarity-connect-2024/charting-your-path)

 Written by [Keywa Henderson Thomas](https://www.bitfocus.com/clarity-connect-2024/author/keywa-henderson-thomas) | May 21, 2024 3:36:57 PM

Don’t want to be tied down to a specific reporting tool? Get the flexibility you need with Clarity’s direct SQL access.  
In this session our experts will help you get connected to your database, query basic client demographics, and learn the differences between HMIS data elements and locally defined fields.

 

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