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Unable to Connect SQL server from Power bi Report Server in Direct Query mode
Anonymous wrote:
Could you brief more about the paginated reports, do they behave like pdfs or are they interactive? Do we need a specific application to view them or create them.
They are more like PDFs, they can render out to a number of formats including Excel, CSV, PDF, etc. But they are aimed at fixed format, printable style reports not interact dashboards. The only interactivity is choosing from any parameters the report auther setup.
You only need a browser to view reports, but you need to user either Report Builder (free download) or SQL Server Developer Tools (SSDT) (also a free download) to get the SSDT designers you can download the community edition of Visual Studio and then get the Reporting Services extension (the community edition of VS has a special exception in it's licensing where companies can use it for the free with the SQL Server tools even if they are larger than the usual minimum size to qualify for the community licensing)
Anonymous wrote:
Could you brief more about the paginated reports, do they behave like pdfs or are they interactive? Do we need a specific application to view them or create them.
They are more like PDFs, they can render out to a number of formats including Excel, CSV, PDF, etc. But they are aimed at fixed format, printable style reports not interact dashboards. The only interactivity is choosing from any parameters the report auther setup.
You only need a browser to view reports, but you need to user either Report Builder (free download) or SQL Server Developer Tools (SSDT) (also a free download) to get the SSDT designers you can download the community edition of Visual Studio and then get the Reporting Services extension (the community edition of VS has a special exception in it's licensing where companies can use it for the free with the SQL Server tools even if they are larger than the usual minimum size to qualify for the community licensing)
Thank you!! d_gosbell