8.4. A Conversion Experience
Reporting Services is not the first report-authoring environment to come along. Hundreds of thousands of reports have been created using other tools. If you have legacy reports and are looking to switch to Reporting Services, these legacy reports need to be re-created—that is, unless your legacy reports were written in Microsoft Access. If that is the case, you are in luck.
The Report Designer includes an import tool for taking Access reports and making them into Reporting Services reports. Not everything in your Access reports imports directly into Reporting Services. Even so, this import tool gives you a leg up on having to rebuild each entire report from scratch.
We now go through a sample report import to give ...
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