Charlie Arehart of ColdFusion fame is reaching out more and more to the .NET development community, as he did yesterday with his presentation of the relatively new SQL Server Report Builder tool. Report Builder is actually a part of the much larger SQL Server Reporting Services product from Microsoft, and like SSRS itself, Report Builder is a free tool enabling your end users to generate their own ad-hoc reports. The best part? It works with SQL Server 2005 AND SQL Server 2000. Let’s face it, it will be somewhere near 2008 before I’m able to migrate my company’s database engine to the new version.
Charlie did a great job with his presentation and he’s clearly comfortable in front of a crowd. If you’re interested in the topic and you missed his presentation, you’re the poorer for it. Charlie’s slide deck will be online on the AtlantaMDF website soon, but in the meantime you can check out these useful bits of information.
I hope these links are useful. Watch the site www.GotReportBuilder.com (owned by Charlie) as it gets built into a clearinghouse of helpful information about SSRS and the Report Builder. Maybe the above links will soon appear on that site!