2.6. Reporting Services
Reporting Services was first introduced as a Web release after SQL Server 2000 was already out and before SQL Server 2005 hit the market. It has received some major improvements as part of the main SQL Server 2005 product.
Reporting Services provides both a framework and an engine for generating reports. It works in conjunction with the built-in Windows Web server to produce reports in a Web environment. The reports are defined using an XML-based definition language called Report Definition Language (or RDL). The Business Intelligence Development Studio provides a set of templates for generating both simple and complex reports. The reports are written to a RDL file, which is processed on demand by the Reporting Services engine. We will look more fully into Reporting Services in Chapter 17.
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