Testing out Report Builder in SQL Server 2008 RTM proved uneventful. The good news was that everything worked, even after an in-place upgrade.

Report Builder RC0 was first released as part of SQL Server 2008 RC0, but it was not included in SQL Server 2008 RTM.

Note – Report Builder 2.0 is not installed along with the SQL Server Reporting Services, but is available as a free download in the SQL Server 2008 feature pack.

SQL Server 2008 R2 Server Management Self-Service Business Intelligence The ability for end-users to do their own analysis and reporting on data is a nice new feature for SQL Server 2008 R2.

To use the SSRS 2008 Report Builder (and/or SSRS 2008 Reporting Services), you still have to buy licenses for all of SQL 2008 appropriate for the environment.<BR><BR>We are currently running ...