The Product Sales example shows the summary of AdventureWorks sales, grouped by product category over a four-year period. The cross table represents an aggregate of over 121,000 data rows.

This report features:
  • Crosstab report item with row and column group hierarchies
  • HTML Textbox 
  • Custom styling

The table is a generalized layout report item that displays report data in cells that are organized into rows and columns. Report data can be detail data as it is retrieved from the data source, or aggregated detail data organized into groups that you specify.

The table, crosstab, and list report items are actually variations of the same thing optimized for a specific data layout. By default, the table item and the crosstab item display group data in a grid layout, while the list item displays detail data in a free-form layout.