Microsoft released the first version of Report Builder in 2005, touting it as a development and management tool that would help end users and DBAs build customized reports. Unfortunately, the result was a complex set of templates and a complicated development paradigm that made the tool more difficult to use than simply using Visual Studio’s business intelligence (BI) tools or the ReportViewer toolset to create reports. Report Builder 2.0 bears little resemblance to the initial product, an...