Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step

Chapter 3. Building Your First Report

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Use the Report Designer wizards to create a simple tabular report.

• Publish a report solution.

• Use Report Manager to manage report properties.

• Use the HTML Viewer to access and export a report.

In Chapter 1, "Understanding Reporting," you learned about the three stages of the reporting life cycle: authoring, managing, and accessing reports. In Chapter 2, "Installing Reporting Services," you learned how to install and configure Reporting Services, so you should be ready to go exploring now. In this chapter, rather than review each component of Reporting Services in detail, you take a tour of it. You visit each stage of the reporting cycle as you build, manage, and ...