I'm going to be blunt here and spot the elephant in the room, if you can't make a report show the desired results, you probably shouldn't be even considering thinking about trying to sell your databases.
Ouch. Point taken. Ok, our lecturers at South Regional TAFE were very good, but in terms of preparing us for the real world and the practice of database design as a paid freelance enterprise, they obviously omitted a few crucial points. Which you guys are pointing out to me now. I have to admit, it comes as a bit of a shock. We were assured that the databases we designed would be sufficient to prepare us for the real thing. But I deviated from the norm in that after my Certificate IV, I didn't go on to do Diploma.
No, I wanted to go straight into business. Hence my website, which I will probably end up showing some of you guys down the track.
Back to the problem at hand, this is a new challenge for me and I ask that you guys be patient with me as far as possible. I will keep reading what you guys post on here in the hope that I can put together a database that will work well for my first client. He would really be a "poor sucker" if, after all this talk and preparation, he missed out on what I KNOW I can deliver.
But the report just ain't working, unlike the entirety of the reports I have designed in the past. I could go ahead and give my client the databases as-is, but I feel that they need more work, and you guys clearly agree. So let's get stuck into it.
N.b. I missed the Certificate II where they were taught social media, and I am no heavyweight (or, "superstar") on any forum online except maybe NoFap, but that's a different story. I would really like to contribute to these forums insofar as I have the capacity to encourage and assist others, and I also intend to take away such advice as will make me a competent, better database designer. @ridders I have just read "How to respond to advice given in forums" and it makes sense, and as such, I think I can get on well here with all that in mind. Thankyou both, gentlemen.