Report writing

[ngoz1]

I often see job descriptions that request for an Access database officer to have report writing skills or experience of writing statistical reports. does any one know what these terms mean. is it anything to do with creating reports in access?

 

[jrbarnett]

It normally means writing reports to pull information from a relational database, which may be Access or it may be that Access is used as the front end to a database held in a client/server system such as SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase or DB2 etc.

It could also be interpreted as using tools like Crystal Reports or Business Objects to write reports, but that is a similar technique to using the Access report writer.
Statistical reports often means using just information about the data, so aggregate totals such as Sum, Average, Count etc. and Group by are common, as is generating graphs from the data as well as just raw reports.

John