1. Introducing SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
Geoff Snowman
Developer Community Champion
Microsoft Corporation

3. Reporting Services Vision
Enable employees at all levels of an organization to realize the promise of BI to promote better decision making
Delivered through
Traditional and interactive reports
Scalable, manageable and embeddable server infrastructure
Integration with SharePoint, Office applications, browser and other familiar tools
Single platform and tools for all types of structured data (relational, hierarchical, multidimensional)
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4. Licensing Model
SQL Server

5. Reporting Lifecycle
SQL Server Reporting Services supports the full reporting lifecycle, including Authoring, Management and Delivery
Authoring
Management
Delivery
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6. demo
Sample Reports
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7. demo
Reporting Authoring
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8. Report Management Security Scalability History Data Connections
Caching Query Results
History
Data Connections

9. demo
Report Management
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10. Report Delivery Pull Model Push Model Report Manager
URL Addressability – CF Integration!
Web Service – CF Integration!
Push Model
File Share
Custom

11. URL Addressability
Any report can be displayed by typing a URL into a browser
Example:
CategoryID=1&EmployeeID=1
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12. demo
URL Addressability
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13. Web Service Interfaces
Namespace Management
Item Properties
Report Execution
Report Parameters
Report History
Data Source Management
Scheduling
Subscriptions and Delivery
Linked Reports
Job Management
Security Management
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14. demo
Web Service WSDL
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15. demo
Push Delivery
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16. Reporting Services Architecture
Browser
Management
Custom App
Data Sources
(SQL, OLE DB, ODBC,
Oracle, Custom)
URL
WMI
Web Service
Output Formats
(HTML, Excel,
PDF, Custom)
Report Server
Report Processing
Data Retrieval
Rendering
Security
Delivery
SQL Server Catalog
Security Services
(NT, Passport,
Custom)
Delivery Targets
( , File share,
Custom)
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17. Programmatic Interfaces
Customizable XML report definition
Open Schema
Viewing Interfaces
URL Addressability
Web Service / SOAP
Management Interfaces
WMI Interface
Extension Interfaces
Data, Delivery, Rendering and Security
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18. Key Differentiators Full Reporting Platform
All server components are extensible
Completely embeddable
Published, extensible report definition
Scalability and Performance
Designed from day one to be a .NET web service
Web farm architecture
Optimized processing and rendering
Reports execute as CLR assemblies
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19. Next Steps
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