16. Reports

Once you have run a query, the results are displayed in a table like the one shown below:

Whilst this shows all of the data, it isn't very nicely presented. Also, if you had hundreds of results then it might be hard to look at all of the data and pick out specific things.

There is a much nicer way of presenting the same data, this is called a report:

This report looks much more professional than a table of data.

Note that 'pet name' has been sorted into alphabetical order or ascending order. Databases will let you sort any field in ascending or descending order.