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Microsoft Reporting Services delivers reports via a web portal known as Report Manager. The end-user needs no downloads to use it (except the print client). Reports are rendered in HTML by default and can be exported to PDF, Excel and a few other formats.<br />
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Reports themselves are developed using a cut down version of Visual Studio.<br />
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There is also a web based report designer thrown in called Report Builder. This is more of an end user tool and is obviously less powerful but is useful none the less.<br />
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What I have described all comes as part of SQL Server Standard Edition or higher at no extra cost. Although it has to run on SQL Server, it can read data from any OLEDB compliant datasource, i.e. Oracle, DB2 to generate the report.<br />
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There is a free version of SQL - SQL Express which does have some of Reporting Services in but I'm not sure what exactly. Goto <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql" rel="ugc">www.microsoft.com/sql</a>&nbsp;for more info, or search Experts Exchange.<br />
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Cheers<br />
Chris
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Microsoft Reporting Services delivers reports via a web portal known as Report Manager. The end-user needs no downloads to use it (except the print client). Reports are rendered in HTML by default and can be exported to PDF, Excel and a few other formats.

Reports themselves are developed using a cut down version of Visual Studio.

There is also a web based report designer thrown in called Report Builder. This is more of an end user tool and is obviously less powerful but is useful none the less.

What I have described all comes as part of SQL Server Standard Edition or higher at no extra cost. Although it has to run on SQL Server, it can read data from any OLEDB compliant datasource, i.e. Oracle, DB2 to generate the report.

There is a free version of SQL - SQL Express which does have some of Reporting Services in but I'm not sure what exactly. Goto www.microsoft.com/sql [http://www.microsoft.com/sql] for more info, or search Experts Exchange.

Cheers
Chris

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Is there a downloadable program like cognos 8 reportnet ?
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Is there a downloadable program like cognos 8 reportnet ?

Need Web DataBase Reporting Tool like Cognos ReportNet 8

A database report is the formatted result of database queries and contains useful data for decision-making and analysis. Most good business applications contain a built-in reporting tool; this is simply a front-end interface that calls or runs back-end database queries that are formatted for easy application usage.

DB Reporting Tools

Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application from SAP SE. It is used to graphically design data connections and report layouts from a wide range of data sources including Excel spreadsheets, Oracle, SQL Server databases and Access databases, BusinessObjects Enterprise business views, and local file-system information. Report designers can place fields from these sources on the report design surface, and can also deploy them in custom formulas (using either BASIC or Crystal's own syntax), which are then placed on the design surface. Crystal Reports also supports subreports, graphing, and a limited amount of GIS functionality.