The topics in this section describe different approaches to filtering data in your reports:

•Filter Data at the Report Level

Use the report's settings demonstrated in this tutorial if you want to load the entire dataset and filter it on the client.

•Filter Data at the Data Source Level

Filter records at data source level using your data connection query if you are binding to a large data source and want to speed up the retrieval process.

•Limit the Number of Records to Display

Options described in this topic allow you to emulate the Top N feature in a sorted report or increase the Print Preview performance by rendering only a subset of a report’s data.