<rss version="2.0" xmlns:a10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Inflectra Customer Forums: What dialect of SQL does the custom reporting engine use? (Thread)</title><description>I'm able to create some basic SQL SELECT statements to access the reportable entities in SpiraTeam and use in custom reports, but was wondering what is the full range of commands supported? In other words is there support for character conversions, mathematical functions, etc.</description><language>en-US</language><copyright>(C) Copyright 2006-2026 Inflectra Corporation.</copyright><managingEditor>support@inflectra.com</managingEditor><category domain="http://www.dmoz.org">/Computers/Software/Project_Management/</category><category domain="http://www.dmoz.org">/Computers/Software/Quality_Assurance/</category><generator>KronoDesk</generator><a10:contributor><a10:email>support@inflectra.com</a10:email></a10:contributor><a10:id>http://www.inflectra.com/kronodesk/forums/threads</a10:id><ttl>120</ttl><link>/Support/Forum/spirateam/issues-questions/503.aspx</link><item><guid isPermaLink="false">threadId=503</guid><author>Mike Onderdonk (mike.onderdonk@hmhco.com)</author><title>What dialect of SQL does the custom reporting engine use?</title><description>I'm able to create some basic SQL SELECT statements to access the reportable entities in SpiraTeam and use in custom reports, but was wondering what is the full range of commands supported? In other words is there support for character conversions, mathematical functions, etc.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:34:26 -0500</pubDate><a10:updated>2013-02-11T20:56:06-05:00</a10:updated><link>/Support/Forum/spirateam/issues-questions/503.aspx</link></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">messageId=932</guid><author>David J (adam.sandman+support@inflectra.com)</author><title> &#xD;
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Hi Mike  The reporting engine doesn't use a database-specific SQL implementation, instead it </title><description> &#xD;
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Hi Mike  The reporting engine doesn't use a database-specific SQL implementation, instead it uses Microsoft Entity SQL that queries the object representations of the database.  For more details, take a look at:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387118.aspx   Regards  Adam </description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:31:20 -0500</pubDate><a10:updated>2013-02-11T20:31:20-05:00</a10:updated><link>/Support/Forum/spirateam/issues-questions/503.aspx#reply932</link></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">messageId=934</guid><author>Mike Onderdonk (mike.onderdonk@hmhco.com)</author><title>Adam, thanks for the quick reply.  This is exactly what I needed.</title><description>Adam, thanks for the quick reply.  This is exactly what I needed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:56:06 -0500</pubDate><a10:updated>2013-02-11T20:56:06-05:00</a10:updated><link>/Support/Forum/spirateam/issues-questions/503.aspx#reply934</link></item></channel></rss>