Reports Report builder meets the challenge by making it easy to design, publish, and distribute professional, production-quality reports in a variety of formats to meet any business need A Developer/2000 report is made up of objects, the building blocks that define the various parts of the report. Some objects, like fields, are visible in the report and others, like queries, work behind the scenes. Two models data model: defines the data retrieved layout model: defines the style of the report Data model: queries: Queries select the data from a standard data source such as Oracle, DB2 using SQL SELECT or PL/SQL statements. columns: represent the columns in the data source that are selected by the query. Groups: organize the data into sets and hierarchies. By default, one group is created for each query in the report. Parameters: are variables, such as the printer name, to which users can assign values when the report is run. Data model links: are used to define a master/detail(parent-child) relationship between the data of two queries.

Building a simple report Step 1: use the report wizard: Step 2: Choose the report style

Building a simple report contd. Step 3: create a query Step 4: Select table(s) and column(s) Step 5: select the columns for display

Building a simple report contd. Step 6: select summary fields (if any) Step 7: choose a template

Building a simple report contd. Step 8: Run the report Step 9: Include date and page number