Functionally, reporting tools like Jasper Report or BIRT can handle the situation where the master report and the subreport(or the table) have their data sources in different databases. But data source names cannot be used directly in the subreport, instead they need to be defined in clear-text database usernames and p...
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Multiple datasources are very common in report development. We would first join tables from different databases before performing subsequent computations, such as filtering, grouping and sorting. With virtual data source or table join, reporting tools like JasperReport and BIRT can in some degree realize these computat...
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The usual way to insert summary values into the grouped data is to process data group by group. Import a group of data, append them and their summary value to a new file and then do the same with the next group, and so on. But it is not easy to realize this in hard coding. esProc, however, supports group cursor with wh...
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Sometimes we need to fetch certain data from multiple files of a multi-level directory during text processing. The operation is too complicated to be well performed at the command line. Though it can be realized in high-level languages, the code is difficult to write; and the involvement of big files will increase the ...
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