Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Melville Thomson IT Pro Evangelist

Introducing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Creating and Publishing Reports Delivering and Managing Reports Agenda

SQL Server 2005 BI Data acquisition from source systems and integration Data transformation and synthesis Data enrichment with business logic and hierarchical views Data discovery through data mining Data presentation and distribution Data access for the masses IntegrateAnalyzeReport

What Is Reporting Services? SQL Server Database (Report Catalog) Report Server XML Web Service Interface Report Processing Delivery Delivery Targets ( , SharePoint, Custom) Rendering Output Formats (HTML, Excel, PDF, Custom) Data Processing Data Sources (SQL, OLE DB, XML/A, ODBC, Oracle, Custom)Security Security Services (NT, Passport, Custom) Office Custom Application Browser

Top Reporting Services Customers Catering planning system used in 2,300 hotels 25% time savings in catering forecast generation 5.1 TB Credit Card DW, Rel Query, OLAP, RS 500+ unique reports, users, Office BSM Reporting on 1.6 TB of data, 35K+ Tx/Min 325 concurrent connections Consumer real estate division 98% reduction in report management time Used by 13,000 agents in 220 offices Built portal with Visual Studio.NET, SSAS 700 restaurants, 30,000 users, 700+ concurrent OLTP/LOB reporting on inventory and sales data

What’s New in Reporting ServicesCoreProduct Integration DeveloperExperience Design, processing, interactivity Performance, scalability MDX queries, AS/IS data sources SharePoint Web parts Reporting Services built in Embed reports in Web/Windows apps Create ad hoc reports: Report Builder Design models: Model Designer End User Experience

Demo Viewing Reports as an End User Review new Reporting Services features View the new End User Sort feature View reports in SharePoint demonstration

Introducing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Creating and Publishing Reports Delivering and Managing Reports Agenda

The Report Lifecycle, Part 1 Creating Publishing Delivering Managing

Report Builder Three templates, Office paradigms Explore, find, and share data ClickOnce WinForms app Business models, not data structures

Report Builder Model Designer

Demo Designing and Publishing Reports as an End User Use Report Builder to create a report Run the report Add a report filter demonstration

Report Builder vs. Report Designer Report BuilderReport Designer Targeted at business users Targeted at IT pros and developers Ad hoc reports Managed reports Auto-generates queries using semantic layer on top of the source Native queries (SQL, OLE DB, XML/A, ODBC, Oracle) Reports built on templates Freeform (nested, banded) reports ClickOnce: easy to deploy and manage Integrated into Visual Studio (BIDS) Cannot import Report Designer reports Can edit Report Builder reports

Demo Designing and Publishing Reports as a Developer Create a new Report Server project Create the report layout Preview and publish the report demonstration

Introducing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Creating and Publishing Reports Delivering and Managing Reports Agenda

The Report Lifecycle, Part 2 Creating Publishing Delivering Managing Report Server “Pull Model” “Push Model”

Demo Managing Reports Using SQL Server Management Studio Examine report properties Script changes to reports demonstration

Visual Studio Integration Embed reports with ReportViewer Server-based or local reports Windows or Web forms apps Integrated with VS data features Visual Studio Standard Edition Visual Web Developer 2005 Express with RS add-in

Demo Embedding Reports in a Windows Forms Application Design and embed a Server-based report Design and embed a Local Chart report demonstration

Core enhancements; better integration Ad hoc reporting with Report Builder Visual Studio support and ReportViewer Session Summary

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