O’Reilly members experience live online training, plus books, videos, and digital content from 200+ publishers. Get Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Bible now with O’Reilly online learning. Report Builder reports no longer require a report model as a data source they use the same datasets and sources as reports created in the Report Designer the interchangeability of pieces between Report Designer and Report Builder was one. The Report Wizard guides the user through the creation of a report. Regardless of how it is launched, after it is opened, a Report Wizard is also opened, as shown in Figure 55.12. Report Builder can be launched as a standalone program from the Report Manager, or from inside SharePoint. Now it is simply called Report Builder and offers nearly all the same design elements that Report Designer does in a more Office-like interface. The SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a framework of reporting mechanisms such as the Report Builder, Report Designer, Report Manager and Report. (Report Models were objects created in Busines Intelligence Development Studio that worked like a data view, specifically for the Report Builder.) It went through another iteration as Report Builder 2.0 in the 2008 version, but it was with the 2008 R2 release, when it was named Report Builder 3.0, that it achieved enough sophistication to be fully embraced by the report building world. When reporting services running in SharePoint integration mode, SharePoint gets the reports from server via web service to end users. When user sends a request for report the response comes from Report Server in SQL Server. This ad hoc tool had much promise but proved to be fairly limited in its reporting capabilities because it lacked many design-rendering elements available in Report Designer and was limited to being sourced from a report model. When reporting services are running in native mode, the reports will store on SQL server reporting server. IIF () function used in SQL Server to add if-else logic to queries. All the objects such as tables, tablix, spark lines, gauges, from Reporting Services are. When Reporting Services first debuted with the 2005 release of SQL Server, an ad hoc tool called Report Builder 1.0 was released with it. ssrs iif in expression Even though report should show rows having Quantities of. Report Builder is a report authoring tool within Microsoft SQL Server that features a Microsoft Office-like environment, giving the business user the possibility to author existing reports or create new ones.