How Do You Use Microsoft SQL Server Report?
SQL Server Reporting Service is the add-on tool to generate reports off Microsoft SQL Server database. It works with other Microsoft products like Visual Studio and Business Intelligence Studio. With this tool, you can create reports that can be embedded into Windows forms or into web applications. Ensure that SQL Server is installed and that the SQL Server service is running on your computer. You can check this by looking at the list of active services. SQL Server may also be installed on a server, and in that case, your computer would be a client. Identify a simple report that you can design to learn how to use SQL Server Report. You will need to know the data elements, the data source for those elements and the layout of the data on the report. Create a Report Definition Language (RDL) based reporting schema that defines all parameters of the report, including data source, report layout and color schemes. RDL is essentially an XML-based file, and if you are familiar with XML, you ca
