Microsoft adds ActiveViews to free SQL Reporting Services
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Microsoft gave users another reason to download its free SQL Server Reporting Services add-on when it acquired small, privately held ActiveViews. Actually, "small" in this context is something of a misnomer: With five employees, ActiveViews is downright tiny. Nevertheless, it does offer a Web-based report authoring and end-user query tool based on Microsoft's .NET framework-and designed to exploit SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.
Microsoft officials position Reporting Services as a one-stop shop to create, manage, and publish ad hoc and production reports.