SQL Server Management Studio Reports
Posted Under: New Features, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, Tips
Along with many other great features in SQL Server Management Studio, there is a very good feature called Reports. Most people use Management Studio Tool just like another Enterprise Manager but it is much more than just Enterprise Manager. For example, if you click on Summary button on toolbar you will get the summary of the node selected in object explorer . In this Summary pane, you will notice that there is a option called Reports like below:
Clicking on any of these report will give you an excellent graphical view the task listed in report. For example, if we click on the first report Server Dashboard we will get following:
This is just one of several reports available for different types of tasks. Just select any other node in Object Explorer and you will see that another set of reports will be available depending on the nature of node selected.




