| US 7,617,221 B2 | ||
| Rendering database queries with blank space | ||
| Patrick Baumgartner, Pullman, Wash. (US); Alisson A. S. Sol, Cambridge (United Kingdom); Peter Eberhardy, Seattle, Wash. (US); Luming Wang, Bellevue, Wash. (US); Mark Yang, Redmond, Wash. (US); and Amer Shahnawaz, Redmond, Wash. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash. (US) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 16, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/675,841. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0201309 A1, Aug. 21, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—10 [707/3; 707/5; 707/9] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a request for a report including data to be retrieved from a database;
providing a user input allowing for a blank space to be inserted in the report at a specified location; wherein the designation
of the blank space is manually inserted at the specified location; wherein the blank space is a designation of one or more
of: a blank row and a blank column;
determining when the manually inputted designation of the blank space relates to the blank row;
determining when the manually inputted designation of the blank space relates to the blank column; and
in response to the manually input designation of the blank space: generating a database query including an instruction configured
to add a member to the database that will produce a blank member at the specified location within the report when the report
is rendered and the query is executed.
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