What Is a Good?

What is a good, cheap reporting tool that can pull from a cloud SQL database, build a formatted table, and print or export to PDF?

The Answer to your question is ‘NO’, however if you want to be an expert in any data visualization tool you should have basic knowledge of SQL. Now a days Companies rely on analytics more and more to identify trends and patterns within their data, valuable information essential to improving decision making. In order for users to make the most of this information -- particularly business users -- the tools and features have to be interactive and relatively easy to apply. Business intelligence has been a major focus for Microsoft, which has strived to make SQL Server a workable enterprise database platform. The right BI system can provide a business with key information by collecting disparate data from different sources and over long periods of time and making it possible to view the data together. SQL business intelligence tools and plug-ins such as power user enable users to tap into the back end of SQL server to find valuable business data, create reports and visuals, and easily share data with other users. A SQL Server BI system supports decision making in companies of all sizes, but it's not always the most cost-effective or sensible option.