The default column names are generated from the database column names or replaced by any aliases specified in your SELECT statement. By default, the columns appear in the order in which you enter them in your SELECT statement. For example, if the first field of the table EMPLOYEE is FIRSTNAME, then the default group name is G_FIRSTNAME.įor each database column you specify in the query's SELECT statement, Oracle Reports creates a report column and assigns it to the group. The default group name is G_ fieldname, where fieldname is the first field of the table specified in the query. The default query names are Q_1, Q_2, and so on.

Although this example report uses only one query, reports can contain any number of queries.įor each query you create, Oracle Reports automatically creates one default group. Generally, the first step is to define the data Oracle Reports should fetch from the database by creating a query that contains a SELECT statement. In this example, the column labels Department Id, Department Name, Manager Id, and Location Id are derived from the columns in your SQL SELECT statement, but you can modify column labels as you wish.

The report output is organized in a multicolumn, multirow format, with each column corresponding to a column in the database table. Description of 'Figure 5-1 Tabular report output'Ī tabular report is the most basic type of report you can build.