1. Chapter 14 Formatting Readable Output

2. Chapter Objectives  Add a column heading with a line break to a report  Format the appearance of numeric data in a column  Specify the width of a column  Add a column heading with a line break to a report  Format the appearance of numeric data in a column  Specify the width of a column

3. Chapter Objectives  Substitute a text string for a NULL value in a report  Add a multiple-line header to a report  Display a page number in a report  Add a footer to a report  Substitute a text string for a NULL value in a report  Add a multiple-line header to a report  Display a page number in a report  Add a footer to a report

4. Chapter Objectives  Change the setting of an environment variable  Suppress duplicate report data  Clear changes made by the COLUMN and BREAK commands  Perform calculations in a report  Change the setting of an environment variable  Suppress duplicate report data  Clear changes made by the COLUMN and BREAK commands  Perform calculations in a report

5. Basic Report Creation in SQL*Plus  Enter format for the report  Enter a query to retrieve data  Enter format for the report  Enter a query to retrieve data

6. COLUMN Command Formats both column heading and data displayed in column

7. COLUMN Command Options

8. FORMAT Option Specifies format model for the data

9. FORMAT Example

10. HEADING Option Specifies a column heading

11. Output with HEADING Option

12. SET Command  SET command used to change the UNDERLINE variable  Assign blank space to add separator with FORMAT option of COLUMN command  SET command used to change the UNDERLINE variable  Assign blank space to add separator with FORMAT option of COLUMN command

13. Modified Report

14. NULL Option Provides substitute for NULL values

15. Report Headers and Footers  Header –Appears at top of reports –Created with TTITLE command  Footer –Appears at bottom of reports –Created with BTITLE command  Header –Appears at top of reports –Created with TTITLE command  Footer –Appears at bottom of reports –Created with BTITLE command

16. TTITLE and BTITLE Options

17. SQL*Plus Variables

18. BREAK Command  Suppresses duplicate data  Allows blank lines after groups  Suppresses duplicate data  Allows blank lines after groups

19. BREAK Command Example

20. CLEAR Command Used to clear settings applied to the BREAK and COLUMN commands

21. COMPUTE Command Can include AVG, SUM, COUNT, MAX, or MIN keywords

22. COMPUTE Command Example

23. SPOOL Command Saves results to text file

24. SPOOL Command Example