Question : Reporting Services > Web Based Pivot Table

Can you create a web report in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 reporting services which looks and behaves like an excel pivot table

Answer : Reporting Services > Web Based Pivot Table

Yes but not fully.

SSRS provides the Matrix tool which makes pivots very easy to include in a report, you can specify multiple column groupings and multiple row groupings. It works very well so long as you keep the number of cells to a reasonable value (I created a report with ~20,000 cells and it took over 10 minutes to render - the query ony took 20 seconds!)

Where Excel has significantly more functionality is in its interactivity. The report is static, you can't drag and drop different values into the column/row headers. You can, however, dnamically set these via parameters of the report when the report is rendered.

Hope this helps - if you want more info let me know

Alex