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Hi all :)

I'm new in reporting service so i'm very confused about interactions between application designed in 3-Tier architecture and reporting service reports
How i can dealing with reports??
What is the best practice in 3-Tier and reporting service??
What about report server??
Where my reports lays in application solution??

Thanks in advance :)
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Several points

(1)
As you can consume SSRS as a webservice reference, you can create your business logic service than encapsulates working with the reports. You can get the EMF/PDF ..etc representation of the report using webservices and deal with it in your code. I really do not see any problems with SSRS user accessing some specific stored procedures of your DB directly. Usually reports do not intersect with application code

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Another solution might be to use WebServices to generate the data for SSRS. With SSRS 2005-2008, you can use the XML provider to consume data from application's web services for your report and your business logic might provide these data to your reports.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345334.aspx[^]

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In real life, most clients want way to quickly define and build their own reports. This is something SSRS is good at. You can create a dedicated readonly user that only has access to a set of predefined views of your DB that users can build their reports from. This will allow visitors to use built-in SSRS user functionality for data mining

Conclusion - there is no golden rule - everything depends on your project needs.
 
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