11.4. Subscriptions

Up to this point, we have discussed only one way for users to receive reports. They log on to the Report Manager site, find the report they want, and execute it, which is known as pull technology. The user pulls the information out of Reporting Services by initiating the execution of the report.

Reporting Services also supports push technology for delivering reports. In a push technology scenario, Reporting Services initiates the execution of the report, and then sends the report to the user. This is done through the report subscription.

11.4.1. Standard Subscriptions

Reporting Services supports several types of subscriptions. The first is the standard subscription, which is a request to push a particular report to a particular ...

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