• I agree. When one has the leisure of purchasing licenses of 3rd party tools, one can always do that.

    I have just tried to list tools that incurrs no cost.

    Also using of stored procedures is/was required in the 2005 SSRS version. Even in DW environments, operational reporting can be a requirement when one wants to compensate for real time refresh of data from cubes. Cubes generally are refreshed at specific intervals, and the data generally changed during those intervals is facilitated thru operational reporting using operational reports right from the OLTP system.

    This is my viewpoint. Thanks for your feedback.