Can I use SSRS 2008 R2 with a SQL Server 2008 database?

Question

I have some databases on a SQL Server 2008 instance. I want to report on them so I installed SSRS 2008, which is obviously ancient. I know SSRS 2008 R2 uses Report Builder 3.0 though so I was blithly confident 2008 does too, but it turns out that SQL Server 2008 uses Report Builder 1.0 which is quite different.

I want to know if I can install SSRS 2008 R2 and hook it up to the SQL Server 2008 database, or will this simply not work.

I know the right answer is to upgrade all the things, but alas that's not possible at the moment.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, SSRS2008R2 documentation seems is not available anymore.

However, according to official docs of newer release: Even SSRS 2014 can run on following instances :

• SQL Server 2014

• SQL Server 2012

• SQL Server 2008 R2

• SQL Server 2008

• SQL Server 2005

Therefore, assumption that SSRS 2008R2 with a high probability will run without problems on SQL 2008 data engine