In this post we will be taking our list of Sales People and seeing how we can group and sort them in order to make the report more useful. We will also jump into expressions in order to add conditional formatting.

This is going to be the first in a series of blog posts about Microsoft’s SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). SSRS gives you the ability to create and manage reports from a variety of data sources. For us, the most used data source is SQL Server but we have also used SQL Azure and MySQL.

Everyday we visit tens, even hundreds of websites. We type in a URL, hit enter and, like magic, a website appears. Yes, we know that the page is made up of HTML, this little piece had to go fetch something from the database to display my name and all the code someone had to write in order for the site to function properly. But do you ever think about what happens in the small amount of time between when you hit ‘enter’ and when the browser starts to render the page?