SQL Server 2016 was been released the first of June 2016, but at the recent Connect event Microsoft announced the first service pack. Aside from numerous fixes, this service pack also comes packed with some notable enhancements for Reporting Services. Koen Verbeeck gives you an overview of these enhancements.
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Understand how to use the SQL UNPIVOT statement and then an equivalent using XML and XPath Querying in SQL Server.
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