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There are three types of columns in Oracle report. Placeholder Column : Placeholder column is used to store a value for a variable. Formula Column :  Used For doing mathematical calculations and returning one value Summary Column : The summary columns perform aggregate functions such as SUM, COUNT, MAX, MIN, AVG, and the like.

Bind variables are used in oracle reports  for replacing the single parameter in the SELECT statement. Example SELECT * FROM employee e WHERE e.emp_no = :empno;

Lexical Parameter is used to replace the where clause at run time. Lexical Parameter identified by & sign and are used to execute query dynamically. Example Select * from employee &where

When confine mode is on, the object cannot be moved outside its parent in the layout.   

When flex mode is ON, reports automatically resizes the parent when the child is resized.

After parameter Trigger : It will fire after the parameter form is displayed and here we can do validation on parameter values. Before Report Trigger : It will fire before the report is executed and after the query is parsed and date is fetched. 

Format Trigger in Oracle Report Builder is a PL/SQL function. This trigger is going to fire before an object is printed in report output. It returns Boolean value, if value is true then goes to print and if value is false then donot print.

Oracle reports builder triggers are fired in the following sequence. First Before Parameter Form triggre fire Second After Parameter Form trigger fire Third Before Report trigger fire fourth Between Pages trigger fire fifth After Report trigger fire

There are five types of triggers available in Oracle Report Builde 1) Before report trigger 2) After report trigger 3) Before Parameter trigger 4) After parameter trigger 5) Between pages trigger

There are five types of triggers in Oracle Report Developer 1) Before report trigger 2) After report trigger 3) Before Parameter trigger 4) After parameter trigger 5) Between pages trigger

There are eight different layout formats: 1. Tabular 2. Form Like 3. Form Letter 4. Mailing Label 5. Group Left 6. Group Above 7. Matrix 8. Matrix with group