11.3. Report History

The report history feature of the Report Manager enables you to keep copies of a report's past execution. This lets you save the state of your data without having to save copies of the data itself. You can keep documentation of inventory levels, production schedules, or financial records. You can look back in time, using the report history to do trend analysis or to verify past information.

11.3.1. Enabling Report History

To demonstrate the report history feature of Reporting Services, we need a report whose results change often. It just so happens we have such a report in our Chapter08 solution. The TransportMonitor report provides different values every time the report is run. We can move that report to the Report Server, ...

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