BIRT; a field guide to reporting.0321442598 BIRT; a field guide to reporting. Ed. by Diana Diana, in Roman religion Diana (dīăn`ə), in Roman religion, goddess of the moon, forests, animals, and women in childbirth. She was probably originally a forest goddess and a special patroness of women. Peh et al. Addison-Wesley 2006 666 pages $49.99 Paperback QA76.76 This volume explains how programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists and nonprogrammers can build and deploy complex reports without programming but instead using the Eclipse Foundation's Business Intelligence Reporting The preparation and conveyance of information by any means. More commonly, the term is restricted to reports as they are prepared by the collector and as they are transmitted by the collector to the latter's headquarters and by this component of the intelligence structure to one or more Tools Report Designer. Described here are BIRT's functions and graphical tools (version 2.1) in addition to new features involving joining data sets, using named data expressions, inserting page breaks, using multiple master pages and multiple data sets, and creating a new type of stock chart. Installation, the basics, accessing and binding data, and enhancing reports are other topics covered. Familiarity with HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. , and JavaScript is assumed. Peh et al. are members of the BIRT development team and have backgrounds in computer science and technical writing. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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