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Chapter 17: Reporting for Duty, Sir! A Look At Reporting Services
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Click Next, and it brings you to the final dialog of the Wizard, as shown in Figure 17-6.
Figure 17-6
Note that the default name happens to be the database we chose, but this is truly just a name for the
data source — we can call this data source whatever we want and it would still be connecting to
the AdventureWorks2008 database on the local server.
Also take note of how it has built a connection string for us. Connection strings are a fundamental
concept in all modern forms of database connectivity — virtually every connectivity model (.NET managed
providers, OLE DB, ODBC, for example) uses a connection string at some level. If we had chosen
some different options — for example, used a SQL Server username and password instead of Windows
security — then our connection string would use a few different parameters and, of course, pass some
different values.
Go ahead and click Finish, and we have our data source for our project, as shown in Figure 17-7.
Figure 17-7