CHAPTER 17

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Configuring Reports with SSRS

In particular, all these templates and tutorials let students simply insert text and images, such as dragging and dropping information into a lab report outline, so students can now spend their time concentrating on the content instead of the form.

—Kathy Schrock

A BI solution extracts information out of data, and reports are the standard mechanism for displaying this information. As we saw in Chapter 16, creating a basic SSRS report is easy. But, creating a good SSRS report takes strategy.

Fortunately, Microsoft has given us a number of valuable features within SSRS that can help us create good and professional ...

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