Help with MySQL query to pull data for reports from osTicket 1.8.1

Hi there,

I am happy to have discovered osTicket and I am about to introduce it to my IT dept and another non-IT dept in my organization.  I am running osTicket 1.8.1.   One important usage is for managers to generate reports from the MySQL data generated by osTicket.  I know there's a MOD out there for reports but I am wanting to know if someone has experience with queries from osTicket that would be appropriate.    I basically want to run queries to pull "report" data and dump it into a csv/Excel file to make it "pretty".

For example, I would probably want to pull data for tickets for a given date range (start/end date) including:
*ticket number
*date of ticket creation
*department (assigned ticket)
*user/customer name (who submitted ticket)
*help topic
*title of ticket
*body of ticket
*staff member (who closed the ticket)
*date/time when ticket closed

If any can point me to some queries to get me started I would appreciate it greatly :).  I am a novice with MySQL but I think if someone could give some examples I could tweak them to suit my needs.

TIA and cheers,
Chris