Presenting Your Findings: Creating Reports
Learn to design and generate professional-looking reports to present and summarise the information from your database tables and queries.
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Learn to design and generate professional-looking reports to present and summarise the information from your database tables and queries.
Key Questions
- Explain the purpose of a database report and how it differs from a query.
- Justify the design choices you would make for a report that summarises monthly sales figures for a manager.
- Analyse how grouping and summary functions, like Sum or Count, can make a report more informative.
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