BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting presents information about how to develop and customize reports of progressive complexity using BIRT Report Designer. This tool was designed from the ground up for Web applications and uses a Web page-oriented design metaphor in contrast to older banded report writers that were developed before the advent of the Internet. This unique approach to report creation makes BIRT an approachable and effective tool for developers of all levels.
Query & Reporting
Interactive Data Warehousing
From start to finish, data warehousing expert Harry Singh walks you through creating a Web-based data warehouse architecture for maximum growth and flexibility. Step by step, you'll learn how to choose the best platforms, technologies, and strategies for your organization-and implement them.
Corporate Information Factory, 2nd Edition
The father of the data warehouse incorporates the latest technologies into his blueprint for integrated decision support systems Having invented the corporate information factory (CIF) to help IT and database managers cut through the jungle of information technologies out there, bestselling author Bill Inmon again teams up with experts Claudia Imhoff and Ryan Sousa to show you how to integrate all key components of the modern information system architecture in a way that meets your evolving business needs.
Crystal Reports 7: The Complete Reference
The most definitive resource on Crystal Reports available. Create presentation-quality reports from virtually any database using the most powerful data analysis tool and this authoritative guide.
Oracle Developer Advanced Forms and Reports
This guide contains an invaluable resource - a discussion of actual Forms and Reports standards used by the authors to create production systems. Included are standards for the use of SQL and PL/SQL in the development tools, naming conventions, and GUI design.
Designing a Data Warehouse: Supporting Customer Relationship Management
For database developers, architects, consultants, project managers, and decision-makers Today's next-generation data warehouses are being built with a clear goal: to maximize the power of Customer Relationship Management. To make CRM-focused data warehousing work, you need new techniques, and new methodologies. In this book, Dr. Chris Todman—one of the world's leading data warehouse consultants—delivers the first start-to- finish methodology for defining, designing, and implementing CRM- focused data warehouses.
Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images
This title is a textbook-style exposition on the topic, with its information organized very clearly into topics such as compression, indexing, and so forth. In addition to diagrams and example text transformations, the authors use "pseudo-code" to present algorithms in a language-independent manner wherever possible. They also supplement the reading with mg--their own implementation of the techniques. The mg C language source code is freely available on the Web.
Sharpening Your SAS Skills
Sharpening Your SAS Skills is an intermediate text on SAS programming and data management intended for those with some knowledge of the SAS language. It covers the most common tools used by SAS programmers and data analysts in their daily work. Designed as a quick-reference and practitioner's guide, this book will be particularly useful for those preparing for the SAS Base Programming exam. The book includes question and answers at the end of each section to reinforce the reader's knowledge of the topic and tables in each chapter that summarize the syntax and expected data. A companion Web site contains examples, extra exercises, the list and log SAS files, and the pdf/html output files.
BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals
Unless you are working at a very advanced level, this is the only SQL book you will ever need.
