Conclusion
In this chapter, you have learned what enterprise reporting is and been introduced to planning for reporting. You have also learned about the Reporting Services architecture, its main components, and the tasks performed by each one.
You’ve experimented with basic report authoring procedures: Creating a report, setting a data source and a data query, creating and editing the report layout, adding code to perform shared operations, and adding some interactivity.
SQL Server Books Online includes further detail about each of these topics. Other features you will want to explore are list and matrix data regions, grouping, expression scopes, cascading parameters, working with the visibility features, charts, subreports, language-culture ...
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