Foreword
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At the end of 2005, the Reporting Services development team had some tough decisions to make. Unlike most of the SQL Server development team, who had been working on the 2005 release for close to five years, it had only been a year and a half since we shipped the first version of Reporting Services. In that same timeframe, we shipped two service packs, acquired a new ad hoc reporting tool that we delivered as Report Builder, and built a set of report controls that shipped in Visual Studio 2005. The follow-up release, code-named "Katmai," was scheduled for a relatively quick two- to three-year turnaround.
During this time, we also learned a lot about how people ...
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