Not practical or effective.
1. You need to pull data for periods where you KNOW you won't get more that 1,000 records per scanner.
2. You can't schedule it
3. You still need to run it past excel to summarize. (and deal with the date format. at least sbg 9 lets you change that).
4. Not repeatable - i've gotten different results depending on how I ask the question (e.g. a general query does not included all of the data a more specific query does.