Chapter 14Report Solutions, Patterns, and Recipes
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Anyone who does a lot of advanced report design work can appreciate the fact that Reporting Services can be used to build highly customized reports meeting the demands of complex business requirements. Features and properties have been added in each product version improving these capabilities. Some objects have dozens of properties, many of which are used only for very specific needs, namely, to solve specific problems.
The report recipe concept discussed in this chapter was born from a series of conference presentations I have given at the PASS Global Summit over the past few years. The topic of advanced report design led to discussions about practical design patterns and different ways that a single, more capable report could be created to replace many simple reports. Through the use of some well-established design techniques, we have learned to create fewer, more complex and adaptable reports, rather than one report for each user request or individual requirement.
Let's face it—a lot of reporting ...
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