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What is the difference between macros and prompt?

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What is the difference between macros and prompt?..

Answer / uzval_vee

Macro is set of insructions to run report.

Prompt is just like a dialog box which will ask user to
select/enter the information what he needs.

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What is the difference between macros and prompt?..

Answer / s.srinivas

A MACRO IS RUN TIME PARAMETER WHICH CAN BEPLACED IN ANY
PART OF SQL SELECT STATEMENT,WHERE AS PROMPT IS USED TO
GIVE CONDITIONS

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