Jiho Han

SQL Server 2005 Beta 3...

I followed the link from Mike Gunderloy's blog and found some info on the beta 3.

ActiveViews offered a Web-based report authoring and end-user query tool based on Microsoft’s .NET framework that was designed to exploit SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. The product was intended for business users with no development expertise.

Microsoft rewrote the tool with a more Microsoft-like user interface and is renaming it the SQL Server Report Builder. Placing the tool inside SQL Server 2005's Reporting Services, Microsoft bills the technology as bringing self-service, ad hoc reporting capabilities to its ever-broadening SQL Server portfolio.

Another nail in the coffin for Crystal Reports?

I found the following quite funny.

Because of the proactive caching, developers will no longer have to understand the esoteric differences involved in deciding among Microsoft's ROLAP, MOLAP and HOLAP flavors of OLAP.

Am I alone?