Presented by: Wes Springob Business Intelligence Developer, Agile Bay, Inc.

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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.

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

SQL Server Reporting Services Reports can be easily transformed into popular formats. Word Excel CSV PDF HTML Tif XML RSS Data Feed

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) Brian Swan’s MSDN Blog server-reporting-services-ssrs.aspx server-reporting-services-ssrs.aspx Report Builder 3.0 (2008R2)

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