From the course: Introduction to Microsoft Fabric by Microsoft Press

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Create paginated reports

Create paginated reports

- [Presenter] With all this talk about visual and interactive reports, it's easy to forget that there is another type of report available in Fabric as well, paginated reports. Paginated reports are kind of old school you could say as these are the type of report in use before we had visual reports. This type of report is designed to be printed on paper and not interactive by nature, although you can work with parameters to customize what you get to see in a paginated report. When you want to print results, it makes sense to have things like page numbers, page headers and footers, and other elements. And indeed, you can have these in paginated reports. Traditionally, paginated reports are rendered based on one or more queries that pull data from the reports data source. Your task is to write these queries and define how the results are rendered. Reports can be based on data in a SQL database, in which case you'll have to write SQL queries. But nowadays you can use a semantic model as a…

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