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Chapter 55: Authoring Reports in Reporting Services

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FIGURE 55-10

Confi guring an Indicator.

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Using Sparklines to compare sales trends for products over time.

Building Reports with Report Builder

When Reporting Services fi rst debuted with the 2005 release of SQL Server, an ad hoc tool

called Report Builder 1.0 was released with it. This ad hoc tool had much promise but proved

to be fairly limited in its reporting capabilities because it lacked many design-rendering ele-

ments available in Report Designer and was limited to being sourced from a report model.

(Report Models were objects created in Busines Intelligence Development Studio that worked

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