Introduction to SSRS

SSRS, or Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, is a client/server reporting platform installed within Microsoft SQL Server. It is based on the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), so it can be used as a service. SSRS was first introduced within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (previously, CRM used Crystal Reporting) and has progressed with every version of CRM and SQL through today.

SSRS consists of the following components:

Image Report Manager—This web application acts as a UI application to manage and deploy the reports in the platform, as well as to manage the security access of each report. You ...

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