Yup, they look like similar solutions to similar problems.

One of the things that I built into reports at that location was the ability to see all of the tmp tables that had been created, and the ability to stop the report on any particular one and display that. I built this as a debugging aid for myself, but was quite surprised when finance came to me one day and said, "Report X is going wrong on step Y - it looks like you're filtering out duplicate records."

I like having users that will debug my stuff. :-)