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Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

by Michael Lisin, Jim Joseph
March 2006
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
480 pages
11h 17m
English
Sams
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Chapter 9. Accessing Data

In This Chapter

• Data-Processing Extensions

• Types of Data Sources

• Connection Strings

• Querying Data

• Adding a Data Source

Chapters 9 and 10 look more closely at data sets, and takes a look at report parameters. The combination of these two items helps to add incredible flexibility to SSRS.

Parameters are values you can pass into the report to help make rendering decisions at runtime. Users can get prompted to input parameters at runtime. In combination with data sets, you can draw a list of valid values from your data sources. You can even make parameters dependent on each other in such a way that the lists of values for Parameter B are derived as a function of Parameter A.

As you have already seen, data sets ...

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