Sql reporting services on Dev edition

When I purchased MS sql server 2000 Dev edition it came with an additional
cd called ssql server reporting services......Could some help me understand
what this is used for?

The reason I aski is I am currently on a learing curve in generating sql
queries that pull the necessary data out of the database. I am now using
the DTS to manually push that data into
an excel file and then massage this data via pivot table. I eventually want
to be able to press a button.

But, am I missing a more elegant solution. Is there a quick way for me to
leverage sql reporting in another fashion with having to learn to much
additional query or .net code to accomplish this.

Thanks for feedback
Jason

Re: Sql reporting services on Dev edition

jason@catamaranco.com wrote:
> When I purchased MS sql server 2000 Dev edition it came with an
> additional cd called ssql server reporting services......Could some
> help me understand what this is used for?
>
> The reason I aski is I am currently on a learing curve in generating
> sql queries that pull the necessary data out of the database. I am
> now using the DTS to manually push that data into
> an excel file and then massage this data via pivot table. I
> eventually want to be able to press a button.
>
> But, am I missing a more elegant solution. Is there a quick way for
> me to leverage sql reporting in another fashion with having to learn
> to much additional query or .net code to accomplish this.
>
> Thanks for feedback
> Jason

There are sqlserver newsgroups where this question would be more likely to
be answered. Specifically:
microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs

Granted, you may be lucky enough to find someone here who
a) knows the answer and
b) is not averse to answering an offtopic question

but - why rely on luck?

Bob Barrows
--
Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.

Re: Sql reporting services on Dev edition

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:49:51 -0500, wrote:

>When I purchased MS sql server 2000 Dev edition it came with an additional
>cd called ssql server reporting services......Could some help me understand
>what this is used for?
>
>The reason I aski is I am currently on a learing curve in generating sql
>queries that pull the necessary data out of the database. I am now using
>the DTS to manually push that data into
>an excel file and then massage this data via pivot table. I eventually want
>to be able to press a button.
>
>But, am I missing a more elegant solution. Is there a quick way for me to
>leverage sql reporting in another fashion with having to learn to much
>additional query or .net code to accomplish this.

You don't mention ASP except ASP.NET in passing, so I'm guessing you
posted to the ASP group by mistake. You likely want the SQL group,
specifically:

microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs

Jeff