1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a request for a report including data to be retrieved from a database; providing a user input allowing for a blank space to be inserted in the report at a specified location; wherein the designation of the blank space is manually inserted at the specified location; wherein the blank space is a designation of one or more of: a blank row and a blank column; determining when the manually inputted designation of the blank space relates to the blank row; determining when the manually inputted designation of the blank space relates to the blank column; and in response to the manually input designation of the blank space: generating a database query including an instruction configured to add a member to the database that will produce a blank member at the specified location within the report when the report is rendered and the query is executed.