Generic report engine by extended select expression -Greese

摘要

Grouping and paging functions are necessary on practical report generation with RDBMS. We can do its easily with a desktop database system e.g. Microsoft Access by GUI operations. Otherwise we need procedural programing of scripting language generally on server-side dynamic HTML generation. With Greese we can do its by descriptive templates. We can regard a Greese template as an extended SQL SELECT expression, can embed any texts in it, can make grouping by nested repeating and can make paging by repeating count specification.