"Data helps solve problems."
– Anne Wojcicki
"The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see."
– John Tukey
In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, reports and queries are two ways to extract and output data for the purpose of presentation to a user (reports can also modify data). Each of these objects use tools and processes that are Business Central-based and work on data extraction (XMLports, which can also extract and modify data, will be covered in Chapter 8, Advanced AL Development Tools). In this chapter, we will focus on understanding the strengths of each of these tools and when and how they might be used. We will cover the Business Central side of both queries ...
