Provide easy way to share tabular data

[ewaters]

I often need to share tabular data (the output of a select statement) with others. Copy and paste works, but looses the color and bolding and often requires some work in Gmail to make it look decent.

Gmail supports pasting in of table markup, but how do we get that into the users clipboard?

Let's do this:

• Easily post the query and results to a web service and return a tiny url link to it
• The link lets you see the data clearly, search and reorder is as needed, and with a click of the button can copy the table to your clipboard for easy pasting as html
• The web service would behave similarly to pastebin, can be internal for privacy, but shouldn't allow searching across all pastes