I think that a query might be the solution of your problem. The query might be like this: select a.field, b.firma AS FIRMA from a,b where a.id=b.id In IReport you could show only $F{FIRMA} and not the key (a.id). If you prefer you could create a view that shows all the field you need of table a and b. The sintax is create or replace view xxx as( select a.field1 field1,a.field2, a.field3,b.firma from a, b where a.id=b.id) and then you make all the queries on this view. I hope that this help Bye dpinfo