1. Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Peter Blackburn Boost Data Limited peterb@boost.net

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6. Précis The sessions today should provide a brief introductory ‘Tour’ of SQL 2005 Reporting Services (with SP2) We will cover as much as we can in the time available in a demonstration centric way For further advice, consultancy or mentoring contact email: PeterB@boost.net

7. Agenda What are Reporting Services? RS Server Architecture Embedded Report Viewer Control User’s perspective Report Manager Report Server SharePoint Integration Mode Developer’s perspective Server based reports Application Embedded reports

8. Report Analyze Integrate Data acquisition from source systems and integration Data acquisition from source systems and integration Data transformation and synthesis Data transformation and synthesis Data enrichment, with business logic, hierarchical views Data enrichment, with business logic, hierarchical views Data discovery via data mining Data discovery via data mining Data presentation and distribution Data presentation and distribution Data access for the masses Data access for the masses SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence

9. Catering Planning System used in 2,300 hotels 25% time savings in catering forecast generation 5.1 TB Credit Card DW, Relational Query, OLAP, RS 500+ unique reports, 1500+ 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 SQL Server Reporting Services Example Customers 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 & sales data

10. The Report Lifecycle Creating Publishing Delivering Managing

11. Internet Information Server (IIS) Reporting Services Architecture XML Web Service Interface Report Server Report Processor Delivery Targets (E-mail, File share, Custom) Data Processing Data Sources (SQL, OLE DB, XML/A, ODBC, Oracle, Custom) Report Rendering Output Formats HTML, Excel, PDF, CSV, XML… SQL Server Catalog SQL Server 2000 VS.NET Report Designer Report Manager or SharePoint ReportServer Web Service Security Scheduling & Delivery

12. Windows Server System Security Infrastructure IT Operations Infrastructure Applications Infrastructure Collaboration Infrastructure

13. Using Reporting Services The end user’s perspective Demo

14. What’s new to SQL 2005 Integrated SharePoint Mode (SP2) Report Viewer Controls 4 Soap Interfaces Multi-Valued Parameters Fixed Table Headers Browser based Printing (ActiveX control) Intellisense for Expression building Adhoc Reporting – Report Builder 3 rd Party Report Items

15. Developing Reports The Developer’s perspective Demo

16. Demo Title NameTitleGroup Demo

17. 17 For more information Visit www.sqlreportingservices.net www.sqlreportingservices.net Visit www.hitchhikerguides.net www.hitchhikerguides.net Site offers premium content for book owners ISBN: 0321268288 Pages: 768 Includes DVD with over 2.5GB of tutorial videos, sample reports

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