Idea for a user friendly/non technical RAD tool for performing queries and reports on Database

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I am investigating for a tool that allows a user to perform in a user friendly way queries to database for extracting datas and creating reports.

Primary requirement is that we can't know queries users are going to do. So we need to design a flexible UI allowing them to specify in a non technical way.

My question is: do you know any tool that does something similar? Have you some inspiring user interface?

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