Making the right design choices

This section offers design options and considerations that will help improve the performance of your reports. The topics covered range from basic suggestions, such as updating older reports to the fastest file format, to more involved decisions, such as whether to use live or saved data, and how to use subreports efficiently.

When designing your reports, and especially when designing reports for the Web, you should allow report users to drive the data they see. In other words, display summarized information, so each user can navigate the report quickly and then drill down to access additional data. In this way, web traffic and response times are minimized, because only the data requested by the user is transferred from the database server.

These are only a few of the benefits of designing user-driven reports:

This section consists of four topics:



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