For developers who would like to create reports for SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services but don’t have Visual Studio 2008, will be glad to know that there is now a stand alone builder available for those to create and publish reports.

Report Builder 2.0 provides an intuitive report authoring environment for business and power users. It supports the full capabilities of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services.  Compared to Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008, Report Builder 2.0 includes a number of additional features:

• Easy to use wizards for creating table, matrix and chart data regions
• Support for directly opening and editing reports stored on the report server
• Support for using server resources such as shared data sources

Get it here.

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