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Introduction To Reporting Services (SSRS). Presented by: Wes Springob Business Intelligence Developer, Agile Bay, Inc. Customers & Partners. Wes Springob Current Positions: Business Intelligence Developer at Agile Bay Member of SQL Pass Tampa. Insert Picture. www.agilebay.com.
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Introduction To Reporting Services(SSRS) Presented by: Wes Springob Business Intelligence Developer, Agile Bay, Inc.
Customers & Partners Wes Springob Current Positions: Business Intelligence Developer at Agile Bay Member of SQL Pass Tampa Insert Picture
Session Agenda • Brief 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 SERVICES • Provides 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 Services • Supports 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 Services • Reports 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 Manager • Shared vs. embedded Data Sources • Shared vs. embedded Data Sets • Report Builder • Deploying your report • Securing your report • Distributing your report • Enhancements
Summary • SSRS 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 • 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