Chapter 23. Reporting Services
Information locked away in relational or OLAP databases does little to help people make decisions. Although many business applications include reports to present data captured by those applications, these reports have limited value because they don’t integrate information with other business applications and because they don’t always satisfy the day-to-day business questions that arise. To address these information requirements, organizations often have a team of analysts who are trained to query databases and package the results, whether in a hard-copy report, an Excel spreadsheet, or a professional polished report.
Microsoft SQL Server ...
Get Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Administrator's Companion now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
