STRUCTURED QUERY REPORTING

ADVANTAGES

• Used for Reporting.

• Used for background Sql processing

• Used to migrate/ move data from legacy system to PeopleSoft system.

• Used to perform file integration.

• Used where programming logic is more.

• This can be used as both GUI and CUI(character use interface)( GUI is
supported only till 7.5 version, it is also called work bench).

COMMANDS IN SQR

They are of three types

1. Sections

2. Paragraphs

3. Other commands

HEADING
1. SECTIONS

a. BEGIN-SETUP
DATA/BODY
b. BEGIN HEADING
FOOTING
c. BEGIN-FOOTING

d. BEGIN-PROGRAM

e. BEGIN-PROCEDURE

SQR page

a. BEGIN-SETUP:
 • This is not mandatory

• This is used to perform output page setup like page size,

margins, font size etc.

• We can have only 1 setup section in SQR program

• The page setup done will be applied to all output pages.

Syntax:

// THESE ARE SPACE SENSITIVE.THE CODE WILL BE TYPED IN NOTEPAD

// THESE ARE SPACE
OR WORDPAD AND SAVED AS .SQR
SENSITIVE.THE CODE WILL BE
BEGIN-SETUP TYPED IN NOTEPAD OR
WORDPAD AND SAVED AS
OTHER COMMANDS .SQR

END-SETUP

b. BEGIN-HEADING

• This is not a mandatory section.

• This is used to design heading region of O/p page.

• We can have only one heading region.

• The heading design will be applied to all the O/P pages.

Syntax: # IS USED TO SPECIFY NO.OF

LINES REQUIRED FOR
HEADING REGION.
BEGIN-HEADING #
 PRINT COMMANDS

END-HEADING

c. BEGIN-FOOTING

• This is not a mandatory section.

• This is used to design footing region.

• We can have only 1 footing section.

• The footing design will be applied to all the O/P pages.

Syntax:

BEGIN-FOOTING #

PRINT COMMANDS

END- FOOTING

d. BEGIN-PROGRAMM

• This is a mandatory section in SQL program.

• This is used to design data region of O/p page.

• We can have only program section in SQR program

• The SQR program execution starts from program section.

Syntax:
 BEGIN-PROGRAM/REPORT

OTHER COMMANDS

END-PROGRAM

e. BEGIN-PROCEDURE

• This is not a mandatory section.

• This is used to design data or body region on O/p page.

• We can have any number of procedures

• Every procedure has unique procedure name.

• Procedures are functions in SQR which can be re-used.

• We do not write actual coding in program section, instead we

write it in procedure section & call them in program section.

Syntax:

BEGIN-PROCEDURE <PROCEDURE NAME>

OTHER COMMANDS

END-PROCEDURE [<PROCEDURE NAME>]

2. PARAGRAPHS

a. BEGIN-SELECT
 • This is used to retrieve data from database which is
required to generate output.

• This is used to implement ‘for’ looping in SQR programs.

Syntax

BEGIN-SELECT

Field1

From<table-list>

[where<condition>]

[group by[<having>]]

[order by]

END-SELECT

B. BEGIN-SQL

This is used to execute all SQL statements like DML,DDL,DCL

statements except select.

Syntax

BEGIN-SQL

SQL-STATEMENT IF THERE MULTIPLE SQL-

STATEMENTS, USING ‘;’ AT
END-SQL
END OF EVERY STATEMENT.

c. BEGIN-DOCUMENT
 This is used to combine static text with data from database.(EG:- while
giving offer letter or any greetings, the text is same , only the name
changes.)

Syntax

BEGIN-DOCUMENT (1,1)

OTHER COMMANDS

END-COMMANDS

SQR PROGRAMMING STRUCTURE

SECTIONS

PARAGRAP OTHER

OTHER

OTHER COMMANDS.

i) PRINT-COMMAND

• This is mandatory for any SQR report.

• They are of two types

− Implicit: no commands required, used for printing

static text.

− Bold
− - Center
Explicit: print command- isUnderline
required.

−• Box
Formatting -options
Shape - Wrap

− On-break

− edit ( for specifying multiple formatting

options)
ON-BREAK

Used for redundancy of printing

Group headings

Group footings

Options: change,top-page,never,always,before,after,save

ON-BREAK = NEVER ( NEVER CHANGE THE VALUE)

= ALWAYS(PRINT VALUE ALWAYS)

= AFTER (USED FOR GROUP FOOTING)

SYNTAX:

IMPLICIT PRINT

&<VARIABLE NAME>(<ROWNO><COL NO>[<OPTIONS>]

EXPLICIT PRINT

PRINT ”<STATIC TEXT>” (<ROWNO><COL NO>[<LEN>])

(<OPTIONS>)

EG: PRINT ”DETAIL” (1,20)

ON-BREAK:

REDUNDANCY OF PRINITNG

& COUNTRY(1,1) ON-BREAK

&CITY (1,5) ON-BREAK

& EMPID(1,7)
DIFFERENT FILE TYPES

.SQR -> SOURCE CODE FILE (EXECUTABLE FILE)

.SQT-> INTERMEDIATE FILE

.LIS-> LIST FILE o/p FILE

.SQC-> FUNCTION LIBRARY FILE

.SPF-> PORTABLE FILE FORMAT

.INI-> INITIALIZATION/CONFIGURATION

.MAX-> MAXIMAZATION FILE( INCREASE BUFFER FILE)

.HTML

.PDF O/P FILE FORMATS

.CSV

.ERR -> ERROR FILE

.LOG-> LOG FILE

DATA TYPES

- TEXT/ CHARACTER

- DATE

- NUMBER -> INTEGER, DECIMAL

VARIABLES

- COLUMN VARIABLES :

These are columns in database ie, fields from database tables.

These variable names will be staring with ‘&’

• SQR VARIABLES :
 o USER DEFINED VARIABLES

o These are program specific variables

o Text values ‘$’

o Numeric variables ‘#’

o Date variables ‘$’

• Reserved variables

o System variables

o Variable name consists of hyphen ‘-‘

o Developer cannot use these names for user defined variables.

• Document markers

o These are used only in ‘BEGIN-DOCUMENT’ paragraph.

o These variable names start with ‘@’.

• Substitution variables

oIn these variables, values are stored at start of program and

remain till end of program.

o The variables are enclosed in ‘{ }’

• Scope of variable

− Global ( default scope is global)

− Local
TYPES OF RECORDS

• TABULAR REPORTS: This is used to generate report from a single table.

• MASTER DETAIL REPORT: This is to generate reports from more than one
table.

• FORM REPORTS: In this report, for each and every row we will have a
separate output page.

EG: PAY SLIPS

• MAILING LABELS: In this we partition the output page vertically and

generate an output .

EG: ADRESS PRINITNG

• LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS: In this report we combine static text. With the
column variables.

EG: OFFER LETTERS AND RELIEVING LETTERS

• CROSS TABULAR REPORTS: In this report we perform both row wise as well
as column wise calculations.

EG: FINDING ALL THE TOTALS IN BELOW TABLE

TOTAL

TA DA SALARY

TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL

 • GRAPHICAL REPORTS: In this report, we represent the data in a graphical
format.

THE EXECUTABLE FILE TO RUN AN sqr PROGRAM IS sqrw.EXE.

THIS IS LOCATED AT

<DRIVE>:\ PEOPLETOOLS
8.X\bin\sqr\<DATABASE>\BINW\sqrw.exe

Simple program

BEGIN-PROGRAM

PRINT ‘HELLO’ (3,10) BOLD BOX

END-PROGRAM

! Tabular report

! This report gets the data from employee table and generates output for all
employees.

BEGIN - HEADING 2

PRINT ‘Employee detail report’ (1, 20) BOLD BOX

PRINT ‘Employee id’ (2, 1) BOLD UNDERLINE

PRINT ‘EmpName’ (2, 15) BOLD UNDERLINE

PRINT ‘Country’ (2, 60) BOLD UNDERLINE

PRINT ‘Salary’ (2, 70) BOLD UNDERLINE

END-HEADING

BEGIN - FOOTING 2

PRINT ‘** Confidential information**’ (2, 10) BOLD

END - FOOTING

! This is main section which calls tabular procedures.

BEGIN - PROGRAM

DO TABULAR

END - PROGRAM

! This is a procedure to get the data and print

BEGIN - PROCEDURE

BEGIN -SELECT

EMPLID (+1,1) ! +1: AUTO INCREMENTS ROWS

NAME ( ,15)

COUNTRY ( ,60)

COMPRATE ( ,70)

FROM PS_EMPLOYEES

END - SELECT

END – PROCEDURE
MASTER DETAILS REPORT

1. USING JOINS
2. USING PROCEDURES
3. USING LOAD LOOKUP

USED TO GENERATE REPORTS FROM MULTIPLE TABLES.

!** master detail report using joins

BEGIN-PROGRAM

DO MAIN ! CALLING PROCEDURE

END-PROGRAM

BEGIN - PROCEDURE MAIN ! MAIN IS PROCEDURES NAME

BEGIN - SELECT

A. EMPLID (+1, 1)

A. BIRTHDATE ( ,10)

B. EMPLID ! IT WILL BE STORED IN BUFFER BUT WILL NOT BE PRINTED

B. COUNTRY ( ,55)

FROM PS_PERSON A, PS_ADDRESS B

WHERE A.EMPLID= B.EMPLID

AND B.ADDRESS-TYPE=’HOME’

END - SELECT

END - PROCEDURE MAIN

NEW Commands used in the above two programs:

DO COMMAND- This is used to call a program.

Syntax: DO <procedure name>

COMMENTING: using ‘!’ we can write single line comments.

Syntax:! <comment>

MOVE- This is used to move the data from one variable to the other.

This is also used for typecasting

# DEFINE- used to define the substitute variables.

Syntax: # DEFINE <sub var name> <value>

LET- this is used to assign values to variables.

This is used to perform arithmetic or string operations.

!** Master detail report using global variables

BEGIN - PROGRAM

DO GBL_VAR

END - PROGRAM

BEGIN - PROCEDURE GBL_VAR

BEGIN - SELECT

A. EMPLID(+1,1)
B. BIRTHDATE ( ,10)
MOVE &A.EMPLID TO $EMPLID !$EMPLID IS USER DEFINED
VARIABLE NAME

DO ADDR_DET

FROM PS_PERSON A

END - SELECT

END - PROCEDURE

BEGIN - PROCEDURE ADDR_DET

BEGIN - SELECT

B.EMPLID

B.CITY (+1, 25)

B.COUNTRY ( , 60)

FROM PS-ADDRESS B

WHERE B.EMPLID=$EMPLID

AND B.ADDRESS-TYPE=’HOME’
END - SELECT

END - PROCEDURE

!**Master detail report using local variables

BEGIN-PROGRAM

DO MAIN

END-PROGRAM

BEGIN - PROCEDURE MAIN

BEGIN - SELECT

A. EMPLID (+1,1)

A. BIRTHDATE ( ,15)

DO EMPL_DET (&A. EMPLID) ! PASSING ARGUMENT TO $ EID IN

EMP_DET PROCEDURE

FROM PS_PERSON A

END - SELECT

END - PROCEDURE

BEGIN - PROCEDURE EMPL_DET ($ EID)

BEGIN - SELECT

B.EMPLID

B.CITY (+1, 40)

B.COUNTRY ( , 60)

FROM PS_ADDRESS B

WHERE B.EMPLID=$EID

AND B.ADDRESS-TYPE=’HOME’

END - SELECT

END – PROCEDURE
FORM REPORTS
! ** This is a form report**

BEGIN - HEADING 1

PRINT ‘FORM REPORT’ (1, 20) BOLD BOX

END- HEADING

BEGIN-PROGRAM

DO FORM_REPORT

END-PROGRAM

BEGIN - PROCEDURE FORM_REPORT

BEGIN - SELECT

EMPLID

NAME

MONTHLY_RT

MOVE &EMPLID T0 $SETID

MOVE &NAME TO $ENAME

MOVE &MONTHLY_RT TO $ SALARY

DO PRINTING

FROM PS_EMPLOYEES

END - SELECT

END - PROCEDURE

BEGIN - PROCEDURE PRINTING

PRINT ‘EMPLID :’ (1 ,1)

PRINT ‘NAME : ’ (3, 1)

PRINT ‘SALARY : ‘ (5, 1)

PRINT $EID (1, 40)

PRINT $SALARY (5, 40)

NEW - PAGE

END - PROCEDURE
MAILING LABELS
#DEFINE MAX_LABEL_LINES 10

#DEFINE LINES_BETWEEN_LABELS 3

BEGIN-PROGRAM

DO LABELS

END-PROGRAM

BEGIN - PROCEDURE LABELS

LET #LABEL-COUNT=0

LET #LABEL-LINES=0

COLUMNS 1 30 60

BEGIN - SELECT

EMPLID (1, 1, 29)

ADDRESS1 (2, 1, 29)

ADDRESS2 (3, 1, 29)

ADDRESS3

ADDRESS4

CITY

STATE

COUNTRY

LET $ADDR-LINE=&ADDRESS3 ll ‘,’ ll &ADDRESS4

LET $LASTLINE= &CITY ll ‘,’ ll&STATE ll ‘,’ ll &COUNTRY

PRINT $ADDR-LINE (4, 1, 29)

PRINT $LASTLINE (5, 1, 29)

NEXT-COLUMN AT-END=NEWLINE

ADD 1 TO #LABEL-COUNT

IF #CURRENT-COLUMN=1

ADD 1 TO LABEL-LINES

IF #LABEL-LINES ={MAX-LABEL-LINES}

NEW-PAGE

LET #LABEL-LINES=0

ELSE

NEXT-LISTING NO-ADVANCE SKIPLINES={LINES-BETWEEN-LABELS}

END-IF

FROM PS-ADDRESSES

WHERE ADDRESS-TYPE= ‘HOME’

END - SELECT

USE COLUMN=0

NEW-PAGE

PRINT ‘TOTAL LABELS PRINTED : ’ (+1, 1)

PRINT #LABEL-COUNT ( ,30)

END - PROCEDURE