We needed to provide a standard reporting solution to our customers, just as Microsoft wanted to create an industry standard with the Report Definition Language (RDL), which is the Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema that dictates the common structure of all SRS reports. We can sum up the reason for the seemingly rapid decision in one word: standardization. We intended to migrate all our existing reports, which had been developed in as many as five reporting applications and platforms over the past ten years.
In January 2004, the month SRS went RTM (Released To Manufacturing), we deployed it immediately.
Our software development company decided to embrace SRS early on, and was fortunate to work with Microsoft during the beta phases. The product was originally slated for release with SQL Server 2005, formerly codenamed “Yukon,” so the early release was a welcome event for many. When Microsoft announced in 2003 that it was going to release SQL Server Reporting Services (SRS) as a SQL Server 2000 add-on, there was a frenzy of excitement.
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