Creating an attribute-only report
You've done a great job until now, and it's time to see some results. I know reports are still two chapters away, and we have a long journey to get there: but here we just want to take a sneak peek at how they work. Remember what we said; that we're just building SELECT statements. So it's perfectly legal to create queries that only involve attributes. A very quick one could be the list of countries in our database.
Getting ready
You need to have completed the previous recipes (and exercises) to continue.
How to do it...
Let's do our first report!
Look for a folder named My Personal Objects and click on it.
Double-click on My Reports.
In the right pane, right-click and choose New | Report.
In the following dialog box leave Blank Report selected and click on OK.
Here comes the Report Editor. We will have plenty of time to look at this window, but now just concentrate on the left pane that says My Shortcuts.
Click on the yellow Attributes shortcut icon to see the list...
