What are differences between Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services?
Pradip Pandey
SSRS is a server-hosted service that is provided free of charge with your SQL Server installation. Reports are made up of xml-based RDL files.
Crystal Reports, while as an expensive option can be a server-hosted service, is provided as a part of your Visual Studio installation and as such is locally (to the website or application) hosted service for presenting reports, which are in proprietary, compiled RPT files.