You can easily edit or remove the chosen report directly from the interface by clicking on the appropriate icon shown in the report treeview. These buttons are displayed for users with Admin privldeges.

Powerful tabular drill downs (as well as graphical - see next) allow users to drill down to a secondary level of information with a click of the mouse.

Powerful graphical (and tabular) drill downs allow users to drill down to a secondary level of information with a click of the mouse.

You can choose Date Time parameters from the Popup Calendar as well as view helpful shortcut hints.

You can add unlimited number of database connections to consolidate in a single instance of ApexSQL Report. Report different databases or even remote servers, all through the same interface.

Browse, view DDL scripts, and even test the validity of your procedures for reporting before selecting them in a single convenient step, in the Connection Wizard.

Once a connection and the reporting procedures are defined, you can optionally set up some procedures to serve picklists displayed as input parameters to your end users.

Picklists will conveniently present pre-defined choices from users to pick from when executing a report. They are served by stored procedures just like reports themselves. In the connection wizard, users can test these picklist procs before using them - noting fields, values and even a preview of what the control will look like to end users.

At the top of each page in the Add/Edit Report Wizard there is a simple bread crumb navigation panel that allows you to double back or skip ahead.

ApexSQL Report 2008's powerful new graphics component renders beautiful reports in a variety of formats and colors. For more examples of reports see our Report Gallery.

Administrating users and report permissions levels can easily be done.

You can create a new group and then, group users and reports, providing an easy way to assign report access to users.

Then, the number of users and reports are shown for the particular group.

By hovering your mouse over the help icon, a script that shows helpful tips for the particular function will be displayed.

You can click on a column header and sort the data by that column ascending, and after the second click, descending. Next to each column header there are arrows which indicate what type of sorting is in effect.

By dragging a column header, you may group the results by column values.

You can perform a variety of aggregate functions such as average, count, maximum, minimum, sum, for columns with number based data.

ApexSQL Report 2008 allows you to create individual users with usernames and passwords and control access to reports.