Creating Database
Reports
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Creating reports
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Opening report builder
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Use report wizard to create a report
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Using report wizard
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Click OK on the welcome page and then specify the
type of report that you want to create
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Using report wizard
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Name your report and select the desired style
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Using report wizard
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Select SQL query as a basis for the report
Build your query (you may be asked to log in at this point)
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Using report wizard
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Designate columns as group fields
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Using report wizard
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Select columns to appear in the report
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Using report wizard
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Specify labels and field length for each of the items
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Using report wizard
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Select a template
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Using report wizard
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Finish and view your report
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Viewing Web report
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Reports
 Snapshot summary of database data
 Viewed on screen
 Printed on paper
 Printed to a file and distributed
electronically
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Introduction to Reports Builder
Database Reports
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Reports Builder
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Allows application developers to create reports that
display data from Oracle 10g database
Developer10g
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Reports Builder allows developers to preview and
distribute reports in variety of different formats
including:
Web pages
 Portable document format (.pdf) files
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Report Uses
 A report can:
 Display SQL query data
 Display summary columns
 Display calculated values based on
formulas applied to database data
 Be formatted to look like an invoice or
other business document
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Report Styles
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Tabular (table-format)
Form-like (looks like a form)
Mailing labels
Form letters
Group left and Group above
 Displays master-detail relationships
 Matrix and Matrix with group
 Data value appears at the intersection of a
column and row heading
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Creating a Report Using the
Report Wizard
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Enter the SQL query to retrieve all of
the report data
Choose the display fields
Specify the report master-detail
groups
Specify the field prompts
Select a predefined template
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Creating a Master-Detail Report
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Specify the master and detail records on the Report
Wizard Groups page
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Detail records remain in Available Fields list
Master
records
Detail
records
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Using Format Masks in Reports
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Format masks can be applied to:
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NUMBER fields
DATE fields
Format masks cannot be applied to text
fields
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Report Templates
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Specify report appearance characteristics
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Font sizes, types and colors
Graphic images
Background shading
Page numbering
Date report is created
Stored in a file with a .tdf extension
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Applying Templates to Reports
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Use the Report Wizard Templates page to
specify:
The name of a predefined template
 The file path specification to a custom template
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To register a template file as a custom template,
modify the Developer global preferences file
(cagprefs.ora)
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The Report Wizard
Templates Page
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Report Builder Windows
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Live Previewer
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Layout Model
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Shows how report will look when viewed or printed
Shows report components symbolically
Data Model
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Shows underlying report data structure
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Live Previewer
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Data Model
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Shows report data components
Query
Data
link
Record
group
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Data Model Components
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Record group: set of
records with the same
column headings
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Column
Master-detail reports have
multiple record groups
Default record group
name:
G_first_column_name
Individual fields are
called columns
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Report Column Types
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Database – Scalar
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Summary
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Discrete data value retrieved from database
Data value calculated by applying a summary function to a
report column
Formula
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Data value calculated by applying a user-defined PL/SQL
function to a report column
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Layout Model
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Shows reports components symbolically
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