Chapter 20. Reporting
Only when the facts stored in a database system are combined in meaningful ways do they become information; before then, they are only trivia. In this chapter, we’ll look at various issues involved in providing those meaningful combinations of facts—that information—to your users.
Note
When I use the term “reporting” in this chapter, I don’t mean only the production of printed reports. I’m using the word in a more general sense, to mean the provision of information based on data stored in the database. This information might be provided in the form of a printed report, but it might also be provided in a form or as a recordset shown in datasheet view.
In the days when computers cost much more than employees and computing time ...
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