[...]... Reporting Services Since then, Microsoft has been integrating the technology into Reporting Services to integrate and enhance the ad hoc reporting capabilities within Reporting Services This new component has been added to the Reporting Services 2005 product in the form of a tool called the Report Builder It is now available in Reporting Services 2005 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services For Dummies. .. already have Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 installed on your server at work or on your desktop Note that you can install the full SQL Server 2005 including Reporting Services 2005 on the Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional operating systems 5 6 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services For Dummies Icons Used in This Book This icon points out things that make using Reporting Services for tasks... demand for an intuitive reporting tool that was an extension of a powerful database management system 2 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services For Dummies Then in April 2004, Microsoft acquired a company called ActiveViews ActiveViews provides an ad hoc reporting system that takes advantage of the.NET framework and SQL Server Reporting Services to allow users to do ad hoc reporting within Reporting. .. Integration with Microsoft Office .378 Chapter 23: Ten Places to Find Reporting Services Support 379 Microsoft SQL Server 379 Reporting Services Web Site .380 Sample Databases for Reporting 380 Report Packs .380 Reporting Services Newsgroup 381 Chat or Webcast 381 OLAP Reporting 381 SQL Server Magazine 382 SQL Server Development... Improving Report Performance .373 Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Hook Into the Microsoft BI Platform 375 Analysis Services 375 Integration Services .376 Data Mining 376 Reporting Services .376 Clustering Support .377 Key Performance Indicators .377 xix xx Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services For Dummies Scalability and Performance ... by business users who can find the report and desire to see the content on demand Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 supports both the push and the pull models for report access 3 4 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services For Dummies Part IV: Maintaining Your Reports A Web interface that comes with Reporting Services 2005 manages your reports in folders to make access quick and easy This interface... Reporting Services 2005 You have all the features to provide a report that can be easily understood by an executive and allow for further exploration of the detail Part VI: Migrating from Other Reporting Tools Undoubtedly, before obtaining Microsoft Reporting Services 2005, you have used other tools to provide needed reporting I have noted some comparisons of Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 with... about using Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 Whenever you need help, just flip through this book, find the part that covers the topic you’re looking for, and then toss this book aside and get back to work Part I: Just the Basics Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 is a powerful reporting platform that requires an introduction to the basics of Web-based reporting The key considerations of reporting are... reports from any database management system that runs in Windows (SQL Server, DB2, and Oracle), because there are tools in SQL Server that can integrate information from any of these other database management systems Because Reporting Services 2005 comes as part of SQL Server 2005 (no extra cost!), if your organization is using SQL Server as a Department of Enterprise Database solution, you should... the foresight to use the world’s most powerful reporting infrastructure in Reporting Services 2005 Part I Just the Basics T In this part o make life easier, Microsoft has built in some powerful features to create reports useful for transforming data into information I provide an overview of the reporting principles and challenges and then introduce you to the key features of Microsoft Reporting Services . by Mark Robinson Microsoft ® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_58913x ffirs.qxp 11/4/05 6:54 PM Page iii Microsoft ® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_58913x. ii by Mark Robinson Microsoft ® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_58913x ffirs.qxp 11/4/05 6:54 PM Page iii Microsoft ® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services For Dummies ® Published. textboxes for labels and captions 75 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services For Dummies xii 02_58913x ftoc.qxp 11/4/05 6:51 PM Page xii Using tables for tabular display 78 Using a matrix for