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Database

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The Database element properties dialog is shown at right.

A Database element looks up a piece of data from a given database and prints it.

"Avg. font width" defines the average character width (in pixels). A value of 0 means that Windows will use the font's default widths.

The "DSN" field displays the name of the selected

ODBC database. To select a different database, click Browse. The user will be presented with the "Select Data

Source" dialog (see next page).

The "Table" field displays the table in the database to query.

The "Field" field displays the field name in the selected table. The value of this field is data that will be printed. The user may also browse the fields in the current table by clicking

Select

(see the Select field dialog on the next page).

If a given record is to be retrieved by a key value, check the "Use" box under "Key field". In this example, the record from the Messages table whose ID is equal to 2434 will be selected. The value of its Name field will be printed. The Key Field may be selected by clicking the "Select" button (see the Select field dialog on the next page).

The "Orientation" field determines if the data is printed horizontally or vertically. See the

Text Element

section for examples of horizontal and vertical text.

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The following is an example of what the "Select Data Source" dialog might look like:

The following is an example of what the "Select field" dialog might look like:

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To insert an SQL statement directly, click the

"General statement" tab.

An example using a general SQL statement is shown at right.

If this option is used, the first field in the first record of the result set will be the data selected to print.

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