December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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Tools of the Trade
SSRS 2012 provides two primary design tools for building reports and related objects:
SSDT, a powerful development tool integrated with VS 2010
Report Builder, a simpler-to-use yet no-less-powerful application for designing ad hoc reports
Both tools provide rich graphical design surfaces and allow for a (mostly) WYSIWYG experience, and you can achieve almost all the same results with either. SSDT, however, is marketed heavily toward developers, whereas Report Builder is marketed more at advanced business users.
In practice, Report ...