I am using ActiveReports with ASP.NET but I think answer for any similar reporting component will do.
I have two resultset to merge and show in a single report, like:
Table 1: Name Job Start End Jack Some service 1992 1997 Jack Some Sales Exp 1998 2007 Jane Some programming 2000 2003 Table 2: Name Training Jack Shiny French Certificate Jane Crappy database certificate Jane Some courses in management And the report should look like:
Jack Job History: Some Corp, 1992-1997 Some Sales Exp, 1998-2007 Training History: Shiny French Certificate Jane Job History: Some programming, 2000-2003 Training History: Crappy database certificate Some courses in management How should I merge the two tables and how should I design the layout to achieve the report in the given example?
Update:
As you may notice, I am not trying to do this with a single select. I have two datatables as source and I can merge them by hand to get a single data source. I am trying to use grouping but I need two kind of groups for each employee. One for the jobs, and one for the trainings. How can I use groups or sub-reports feature to bind this kind of data (and how should I process the data if necessary)?
Use subreports… Create a main report that will have two subreports. One subreport for job history and one subreport for training history. The main report will need a query that will return a list of people. Then for each Person in the detail of the main report, set a parameter on each of the child subreports that will refine the query in those two to list the Job History or Training History for only the current person being displayed in the parent report.
A detailed walkthrough that explains how to do this step by step is on the Data Dynamics website here. Some overview information is also here