PeopleSoft Tutorials

Calling UNIX scripts from SQR

It often requires us to invoke OS commands from within an SQR. Today we will see how to use the call system command from within the SQR to invoke a UNIX script.

Arrays in SQR

An Array, like a database record, is organized as rows and columns. But unlike a database record, Arrays exists only in memory and NOT in the disk. This post discusses the arrays in SQR in detail

Comments in SQR

It’s always a good practice to comment your code. By doing this, your code become more understandable and thus maintainable. This holds good for all programming languages and SQR is no exception.

It’s common to join tables within SQRs to retrieve data from normalized tables. As SQL statements consume significant computing resources, such joins may be a hindrance to performance of the SQR. Further, as the number of tables that are used in the join increases, the performance decreases.

Multiple Reports in SQR

Generating multiple reports in SQR is common these days. Writing SQRs that produce multiple reports have many advantages over the other approach of having multiple SQRs do this job. This post discusses how to generate multiple reports in SQR.

Dynamic call-section in Application Engine

Often, business logic requires us to call different sections based on occurrence of certain conditions in different scenarios and that too from the same call-section. To enable this kind of logic, we will have to make the call-section dynamic. This is how we can do it.