You're reading from Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide Learn to use the power of Pentaho for Business Intelligence reporting in a series of simple, logical stages. From installation in Windows or Linux right through to publishing your own Java web application, it's all here.

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782162247

Length 342 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Pentaho

Concepts

Data Processing

Author (1):

Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. What is Pentaho Report Designer? FREE CHAPTER

2. Installation and Configuration

3. Start PRD and the User Interface (UI) Layout

4. Instant Gratification – Creating Your First Report with PRD

5. Adding a Relational Data Source

6. Adding Groups

7. Adding Parameters

8. Using Formulas in Our Reports

9. Adding Charts

10. Adding Subreports

11. Publishing and Running Reports in Pentaho BA Server

12. Making a Difference – Reports with Hyperlinks and Sparklines

13. Environment Variables, Stylesheets, and Crosstabs

14. PRD Reports Embedded in Web Applications

A. Sakila DB Data Dictionary

B. Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Chapter 5. Adding a Relational Data Source

In this chapter, we will create a copy of the report created in the previous chapter and modify it so that it takes its data from a relational source. We will explain what JDBC is, what a JDBC driver is, and how it is used.

The topics we will be covering in the chapter include the following:

Downloading the JDBC driver for MySQL and copying it inside Pentaho Report Designer (PRD)
Using the UI to create/edit JDBC-type data sets and creating a JDBC connection to our sakila database, with its corresponding SQL query
Modifying the following sections: Report Header, Group Header, Details Header, and Details Footer; we will configure the last two to be repeated on each page
Deleting certain objects from the report, adding some new ones, and modifying others so that they all correspond to our new data source
Aggregation functions, explaining the most used ones; we will add a new function into our report and use its output in order to modify the...

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