CHAPTER 2Report Authoring: Designing Efficient Queries
SSRS provides a platform for developing and managing reports in an environment that includes multiple data sources of information. These data sources can include both relational data (for example, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and so on) and nonrelational data (for example, Active Directory, LDAP stores, and Exchange Server). Standards such as ODBC, OLE DB, and .NET facilitate the retrieval of data from these disparate data stores, so as long as your system has the relevant drivers, SSRS can access the data. In the SSRS report design environment, configuring a dataset that drives the report content is the first step of the design process.
However, before we introduce the many elements of the ...
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