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Hi,
I am in the process of trying to find out what is the best practise for generating reports from an sql database useing different tables, that would be usefull to user on the Software access the DB, how do you do it? I come from a web design background and are now having to design a reporting engine for an ancient VB 6 application i have been lumped with....
I am used to having to build each report manually in html line for line and writting the formatting out in code, using sql querys for getting the data I need. but this is hard crap work and I would like to know if I am the only one doing it this way or do you have another way of doing it using some kind of report builder like crystal reports.
Its just there must be a better and faster way to get usefull reports from a db without the hard work building every line in the report from different querys and functions that jump all over the place in your application and db.
your insiteful comments will be greatly appreciated...
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If you're programming under .NET, I would suggest to use Microsoft's Reporting Technology (I think Crystal Report is a little more complicated, but that's just my personal opinion). It's easy--all you have to do is to design a report (Add new item -> Report), create an instance with parameters and attach it to your program. You don't have to worry about print margins or layout. They can be set by changing some variables, unlike HTML, which you'd have to mess with CSS. This is especially useful when you have to print labels.
Plus, The Reporting Technology and Crystal Report comes with VS2005. If you're programming .NET you should have them installed already.
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Hi, I have a table that lists the incomes and expenditures of various organizations.
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Organization | Report Year | Income | Expenditure<br />
Org 1 | 1/4/2008 | £20 | £30<br />
Org 1 | 1/4/2007 | £20 | £30<br />
Org 2 | 1/4/2003 | £20 | £30<br />
Org 2 | 1/4/2002 | £20 | £30<br />
Org 2 | 1/4/2001 | £20 | £30<br />
Org 3 | 1/4/2006 | £20 | £30<br />
Org 4 | 1/4/2002 | £20 | £30<br />
I have been trying to write a query that will return the latest record for each organization. So the result would be
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Org 1 | 1/4/2008 | £20 | £30<br />
Org 2 | 1/4/2003 | £20 | £30<br />
Org 3 | 1/4/2006 | £20 | £30<br />
Org 4 | 1/4/2002 | £20 | £30<br />
Tried searching but came up with no uselful answers. Can someone help? It needs to be compatible with Microsoft Access 
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here it is :
select distinct organisation,<br />
(select top 1 t1.rerportyear from myTable as t1 where t1.organisation = myTable.organisation order by rerportyear desc) as reportYear,income,expenditure<br />
from myTable
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Hi
Try this:
SELECT<br />
Organization,<br />
[Report Year],<br />
[Income],<br />
[Expenditure]<br />
FROM <br />
Table1 a <br />
WHERE [Report Year] >=<br />
(<br />
SELECT TOP 1 <br />
[Report Year]<br />
FROM <br />
Table1 b <br />
WHERE <br />
a.Organization = b.Organization <br />
ORDER BY [Report Year] DESC<br />
)<br />
ORDER BY <br />
Organization
Hope you are getting results as expected.
Harini
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Thanks for replying blue_boy and harini. I used blue_boys solution in the end and it works as i want it. it actually fits into another much longer sql statement.
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Glad to help you... 
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I have an application under test, where I iteratively reset an export batch and then run the export for different configurations. For major testing, I wish to test each config over the full monty, 70k documents exported, but for dev testing I like to keep the rows in each section down to 500. Last night in the interests of not breaking code, I was popping ‘TOP 500’ into each query, but I’m sure there is a better way. Any suggestions will be appreciated. I’m using a SqlDataAdapter to fill my DataTable objects.
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hai,
i m using SQL server 2000.
i have 3 columns A,B,C respectively. the columns consist of the following values.
Col-A: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,i,i,i,i
Col-B: j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,i,r,r,r
Col-C: s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,a,b,c,n,s
I need the output as
Col-D: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z
Note : Commas are not needed. just in row-wise
i.e, i want to combine 3 columns and want to remove the REPEAT values,NULL and EMPTY
how to achieve it? - KARAN
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here it is my quick solution:
select distinct cola <br />
from myTable<br />
union all<br />
select distinct colb from myTable where colb <> (select top 1 cola from myTable order by cola desc)<br />
union all<br />
select distinct t3.colc from myTable as t3 where t3.colc <='z' and t3.colc >(select top 1 colb from myTable order by colb desc)
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thanks blue_boy.
but all the three columns is in the same table and i dt know the last value whether the last value is "z" or anyother (since, i cant understand {t3.colc <='z'} statement)
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Instead harcoded 'z' condition then modified query looks like this:
select distinct cola <br />
from myTable<br />
union all<br />
select distinct colb from myTable where colb <> (select top 1 cola from myTable order by cola desc)<br />
union all<br />
select distinct t3.colc from myTable as t3 <br />
where t3.colc <=(select top 1 colc from myTable order by colc desc)<br />
and t3.colc >(select top 1 colb from myTable order by colb desc)
result of this query comes from one table in my case named myTable
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wwowooow.... awosome...... my friend! thats working fine! i achieved 99% of my result. thanks a lot. But the thing here i have some EMPTY values (i.e, string without any values(string count is 0)). how to remove these?.. expecting your reply so as to fulfil my work in 100% 
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which column return empty text?
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The Final result should not contain any NULL or EMPTY values..................
Now the NULL is removed. how about the EMPTY?
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The way how you eliminate NULL values same do with empty text.
e.g
columnname <> ''
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You are welcome. Did you establish 100% your query?
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Much of articles to read are here[^] about your answer.
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Basically you will need set up your SQL Server installation using Windows authentication so that each user logs in using their Windows credentials.
You can then apply security settings for each user depending on which tables etc you want them to have access to.
There is a lot more behind this which google will more than help with.
What I have described above should get you heading in the right direction.
Regards
Guy
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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Thanks to both of u for reply
Sorry i m facing a problem in login
I right clicked on Local n then select property->Security Tab
n select sql server authentication mode set the username prof and password prof
i worked but when i wanna connect ,it ask authentication when i enter prof username n password prof
it says:
Login Failed please varify the sql server is running and check your sql server registration properties using right click
but when i select property it ask athentication again
The username n password is right then wht's the problem???
The Great Pleasure In Doing That Things That Other People Say U Can't By Doing This U Can Shut Their Mouth
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I need to store my RTF files in a database. I have tried WRITETEXT function for that and also normal insert command. My problem is when I read the file back from database (using READTEXT and normal SELECT) and save it to hard disk the file gets corrupted . ( 28 characters are added at the begining of the file . When I remove those redundant characters the file can be opened by wordpad). Why is it ? Do you have any idea of storing files on database and retrieving them ? I use SQL Server 2000.
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modified on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:46 AM
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