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Microsoft enables graphical creation of reports
Enhancing its enterprise database with enterprise reporting capabilities, Microsoft Corp. last month announced the availability of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.
Tightly integrated with Visual Studio .NET, Reporting Services allows developers to use the drag-and-drop approach to rapidly build reports based on data from multiple sources, including SQL Server, Access, IBM DB2, .NET, ODBC, OLE DB and Oracle databases, said Tom Rizzo, Microsoft's director of marketing for SQL Server.
Reporting Services enables developers to output reports in multiple formats by selecting formats such as CSV, Excel, HTML, PDF,...