A Candid Look at Report Builder 3.0

Microsoft has been hard at work again, releasing SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0. Like its predecessors, Report Builder 3.0’s goal is to provide end users with an easy-to-use alternative to the report-authoring tools in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). This is a laudable goal, because the BIDS tools can be a bit daunting at first, especially for paradevelopers not used to dealing with sophisticated application development tools. (Paradeveloper is a term I coined to refer to...