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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://msmvps.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title> Sundar Narasiman's Random Musings on .NET and SharePoint : SQL</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/tags/SQL/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: SQL</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder 2.0</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/2008/12/05/sql-server-2008-reporting-services-report-builder-2-0.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:23:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1655964</guid><dc:creator>lavssun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1655964</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/2008/12/05/sql-server-2008-reporting-services-report-builder-2-0.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder 2.0 delivers an intuitive, Office-like report authoring environment enabling business and power users to leverage their experience with Microsoft Office 2007 products. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder 2.0 supports the full capabilities of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services including: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Flexible report layout capabilities of SQL Server 2008 Report Definition Language&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Data Visualizations including charts and gauges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Richly formatted textboxes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Export to Microsoft Office Word format&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Features specific to Report Builder 2.0 are focused on simplifying the process of creating and editing reports and queries and include the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Easy to use wizards for creating table, matrix and chart data regions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Support for directly opening and editing reports stored on the report server&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Support for using server resources such as shared data sources&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Query designers for multiple data sources including a Microsoft SQL Server-specific query designer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;It can be downloaded below :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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