Introduction To Reporting Services(SSRS)

Presented by: Wes SpringobBusiness Intelligence Developer, Agile Bay, Inc.

Wes SpringobCurrent Positions:Business Intelligence Developer at Agile BayMember of SQL Pass Tampa

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Session AgendaBrief overview of Reporting Services.Demonstration, Building your first report.Q&A

Terms and Acronyms(SSRS) SQL Server Reporting Services:

Microsoft’s Reporting solution. (BI) Business Intelligence: Reporting and

Analysis of business data. (.rdl) RDL: Report Definition Language

(XML), or a Reporting Services report definition file.

Overview of Reporting Services

More than just reports

SQL Server Reporting SERVICESProvides a presentation method for sharing reporting and

analysis throughout an organization and to the public.Provides administration tools to manage versions,

branding, security and distribution of reports.Provides tools for developers to create reports.

SQL Server Reporting ServicesSupports virtually any database or data source.

OLE (Deprecated) ODBC SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) SQL Azure (Cloud Database) SQL Server Analysis Services Oracle XML Teradata

Can be presented in a variety of methods Through Report Manager Embedded in a web page using the Report Viewer .Net Control Through SharePoint In a Windows application As HTML in an Email

SQL Server Reporting ServicesReports can be easily transformed into popular formats.

Word Excel CSV PDF HTML Tif XML RSS Data Feed

Demo:Building your first report

Demo: Introduction to Report ManagerShared vs. embedded Data SourcesShared vs. embedded Data SetsReport BuilderDeploying your reportSecuring your reportDistributing your reportEnhancements

Summary

SummarySSRS is more than just reports.Report Manager is the hub of SSRS

administration.Report Builder provides an easy to

use development environment for creating RDLs.

Additional Resources

Additional Resources Technet (2008R2)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159106(v=sql.105).aspx

Brian Swan’s MSDN Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brian_swan/archive/2010/04/29/getting-started-with-sql-server-reporting-services-ssrs.aspx

Report Builder 3.0 (2008R2)http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd207008(v=sql.105).aspx

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