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OCR: 6 4 2 SECTION CHAPTER 11 DESIGNING REPORT TEMPLATES How can display or print data as formatted report? report is a printed or on-screen list of some or all of the data in database To cre- ate reports, most DBMSs include report generator which 3 software tool for specifying the content and format for database report. End users might use report generators but more typically they are used by database designers. report template contains the outline of general specifications for report, including such elements as the report title fields to include fields subtotal or total, and report format specifications. The template does not, however, contain data from the database Data is merged into the template when you actually run a report As an example suppose that a manager at the Vintage Music Shop w ...