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2. SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services: Architecture Overview
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Session Code: 352
SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services: Architecture Overview
Ron van Moorsel
Business Intelligence Consultant
Prophesy Ltd
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Title: SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Architecture Overview
Technical Level: 300
Intended Audience: DBA’s, SysAdmins, Developers
Objectives (what do you want the audience to take away from this session):
SSRS Architecture is designed for greater scalability, reliability and ease of deployment
Existing applications and reports continue to work
Understand SSRS management tools changes and any impact on deployment and upgrade scenarios
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4. Integrated End-to-End BI Offering
SharePoint Server
SEARCH
DELIVERY
Reports
Dashboards
Excel
Workbooks
Analytic
Views
Scorecards
Plans
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
COLLABORATION
END USER TOOLS & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPS
Excel
PerformancePoint Server
BI PLATFORM
SQL Server
Reporting Services
Analysis Services
SQL Server DBMS
SQL Server Integration Services

5. Objectives And Takeaways
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Objectives And Takeaways
Session Objective
Learn about Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS) architecture and impact on management tools, upgrades and deployment
Takeaways
SSRS Architecture is designed for greater scalability, reliability, performance and ease of deployment
Existing applications and reports continue to work
Understand SSRS management tools changes and any impact on deployment and upgrade scenarios
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This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.

6. SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Mgmt Studio
Report Manager
Report Designer
Model Designer
Report Builder
Config Tool
Security Services
(NT, Passport, Custom)
Data Sources
(SQL, OLE DB, XML/A,
ODBC, Oracle, Custom)
XML Web Service Interface
Report Server
Report Engine
Data Processing
Delivery Targets
( , SharePoint, Custom)
Security
Output Formats
(HTML, Excel, PDF, Custom)
Rendering
Scheduling & Delivery
SQL Server Catalog

7. Agenda Service Architecture Management Tools Update Scale & Memory
Deployment & Upgrade

8. Service Architecture Changes
One service architecture
Easier to deploy, configure and manage
Does not depend on Internet Information Services (IIS)
Report Server tools provide required IIS capabilities
Do not need IIS on your database servers
Shares internal components with SQL Server
Network interfaces are shared with SQL Server
Report Server service hosts ASP.NET in SQL CLR
Does not change deployment topologies
Supports SOAP, URL Access and Report Manager
Upgrades are supported
Design Goal: Don’t break “anything”!

9. Reporting Services 2005 Service Architecture
Report Builder
Report Manager
Management Studio
3rd Party Applications
Report Designer
SharePoint V3
Configuration Tool
Web Service
ASP.NET
IIS
Report Data Sources
WMI
Windows Service
WMI Provider
Report Server Database
SharePoint V3 Databases
Configuration Files

10. Reporting Services 2005 Service Architecture
Report Builder
Report Manager
Management Studio
3rd Party Applications
SOAP / URL Access
Report Designer
SharePoint V3
Configuration Tool
Report Processing
Web Service
Extensibility
ASP.NET
IIS
Report Data Sources
WMI
Windows Service
WMI Provider
Report Server Database
SharePoint V3 Databases
Configuration Files

11. Reporting Services 2005 Service Architecture
Report Builder
Report Manager
Management Studio
3rd Party Applications
Report Designer
SharePoint V3
Configuration Tool
Report Processing
IIS
Scheduling & Delivery
ASP.NET
Web Service
Database Maintenance
Extensibility
Report Data Sources
WMI
Windows Service
WMI Provider
Report Server Database
SharePoint V3 Databases
Configuration Files

12. Reporting Services 2008 Service Architecture
Report Builder
Management Studio
3rd Party Applications
Report Designer
SharePoint V3
Configuration Tool
Windows Service
Web Service
Report Manager
Background Processing
Report Data Sources
WMI
Platform
WMI Provider
Report Server Database
SharePoint V3 Databases
Configuration Files

13. Reporting Services 2008 Service Architecture
Report Builder
Management Studio
3rd Party Applications
Report Processing
Report Designer
SharePoint V3
Configuration Tool
Scheduling & Delivery
Extensibility
Web Service
Database Maintenance
Report Manager
Background Processing
Report Data Sources
WMI
Platform
WMI Provider
Report Server Database
SharePoint V3 Databases
Configuration Files

14. Reporting Services 2008 Service Architecture
Report Builder
Management Studio
3rd Party Applications
Report Designer
SharePoint V3
Configuration Tool
ASP.NET
App Domain Management
Web Service
Authentication
Memory Management
Report Manager
Service Network Interface
Service Platform
Background Processing
Report Data Sources
WMI
Platform
WMI Provider
Report Server Database
SharePoint V3 Databases
Configuration Files

15. Networking Capabilities
SSRS is an Application server that does reporting
It is not a general purpose web server
Report Server supports HTTP and SSL
Specific IP address, host headers, multiple ports
SSL certificates and usage
Security modes
NTLM, Kerberos, Negotiate, Basic, Custom
Tools support is provided for common settings
Configuration tool is updated
WMI API Support for setting URLs, SSL bindings
SSRS has a W3C compliant HTTP request log
Can be analyzed using standard IIS tools

16. Report Server & IIS Coexistence
IIS is not required for RS to function
Report Server & IIS 6+ use HTTP.SYS
Single network stack built into Windows
RS & IIS can share a single port
Exception: Windows XP 32-bit due to IIS 5.1
HTTP.SYS sends requests to Report Server
RS makes explicit URL Reservations for is Virtual Directories
IIS gets all requests not covered by explicit URL Reservations
SPN conflicts are possible
Solved by running RS under the Network Service account
Use only NTLM rather than Negotiate or Kerberos
Configure host headers and specific SPNs

17. URL Reservations URL Reservations (“URLs”) replace IIS Web Sites
Used to direct requests to a particular service
Define the protocol, URL String, port, and virtual directory
Multiple URL Reservations are allowed
Independently specified for Report Server, Report Manager
Recommend using identical URLs for both
Virtual Directory is simplified
In IIS, Virtual Directories have many settings
In Reporting Services 2008, Virtual Directory is just a name
Only one virtual directory name is allowed for Report Server or Report Manager

18. Deployment Differences
Some IIS functionality is not provided
Anonymous and Digest authentication
Client certificates
Hosting application domains in SSRS
Programmatically processing requests
Use ASP.NET HTTP Modules
ISAPIs are not supported
Most impacted are Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions
ISA/Intelligent Application Gateway server is the recommended solution

19. Agenda Service Architecture Management Tools Update Scale & Memory
Deployment & Upgrade

20. Reporting Services Configuration Manager
SSRS Configuration Tool
Purpose: Help configure Report Server
Changes to reflect IIS removal
Set URLs with VDIRs
Usability enhancements
Database Wizard
Set SharePoint mode at creation

21. SQL Server Management Studio
Purpose: Administer report server with focus on Admins.
No namespace management
Removed home node
Added SharePoint server mode support
Added job management
Added system properties
Added enable/disable features

22. Report Manager SSRS Report Manager
Purpose: Default tool to view and manage reports with focus on end users.
Hosted inside the report server process
Moved server management to SSMS
Added Model management
Model click-through
Model item security

23. SharePoint Add-in SSRS SharePoint Add-in
Purpose: Reports Management via SharePoint UI when report server is setup in SharePoint mode
Supports in-place upgrade of 2005 SP2 Add-in
Added Data Driven Subscriptions
Added support for URL parameters

24. Ron van Moorsel Business Intelligence Consultant Prophesy Ltd
4/25/2017 1:32 AM
Management Tools
demo
Ron van Moorsel
Business Intelligence Consultant
Prophesy Ltd
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

25. Agenda Service Architecture Management Tools Updated Scale & Memory
Deployment & Upgrade

26. Report Engine Scalability
2008 Report Engine design goals
Scale to any size report (millions of rows!)
Reports are not memory bound
Many simultaneous report executions
Small reports are not starved by large reports
Design Changes
On demand processing engine
Cursor-based Rendering Object Model
Rendering re-architecture
Rewritten renderers
2008 reduces workload and memory footprint
Report items are calculated on demand
Renders only the pages requested by users
Data sets no longer must be entirely in memory

27. Page Response Time Implications

28. SQL Server 2005 SQL Server 2008 Architecture Data Table Matrix List
Chart
Tablix
Calcs
Soft Page
Layout
HTML
Webforms
Group
HTML
Excel
Chart
Winforms
Data
CSV
Image
ROM
Storage
XML
Hard Page
Layout
Image
Print
PDF
Image

29. Backward Compatibility
Data
Tablix
Calcs
Soft Page
Layout
HTML
2005
Webforms
Group
Excel
Chart
2005
Winforms
Data
CSV
ROM
Storage
XML
Hard Page
Layout
Image
2005
Print
PDF

30. Memory Management Server infrastructure for process memory monitoring
Dynamic, self-managing with memory pressure
Reduces throughput in memory pressure situations
File system cache
Used to adapt to memory pressure
Used when processing receives memory events from server
Administrator is able to set targets (Min, Max)
Minimum threshold defines the amount of memory the server thinks ‘belongs’ to it
The memory is used only if a request needs it
Maximum threshold defines the not to exceed value
Adapts to other processes consuming memory

31. Memory Implications 2005 Simulated 2008 Real
App Domain recycle stops report execution
2005 Simulated
2008 Real

32. Memory and IO Implications
2008 Real

33. Server Memory Management
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Server Memory Management
demo
Ron van Moorsel
Business Intelligence Consultant
Prophesy Ltd
Microsoft Confidential

34. Agenda Service Architecture Management Tools Updated Scale & Memory
Deployment & Upgrade

35. What is supported in RS 2008 Usage Scenario Support Statement
Applications built for Reporting Services 2005
Supported
Applications built for Reporting Services 2000
2000 SOAP APIs are not supported
URL Access supported
RS Database hosted in SQL Server 2008
RS Database hosted in SQL Server 2005
RS Database hosted in SQL Server 2000
Not supported
SharePoint integration
New Reporting Services 2008 SharePoint Add-in is provided
SharePoint v2 Web Parts
Single Server deployment
Multi-Server deployment
Supported – Reporting Services on computer 1 and RSDB on computer 2
Scale-out deployment

36. Upgrading to Reporting Services 2008
Support for upgrading from SSRS 2000 or SSRS 2005
Upgrade moves required settings out of IIS and creates URL reservations
Not supported scenarios will BLOCK upgrade
Report server database auto upgrade
RSDB schema is upgraded on the fly
Executed by ReportServer service
Pre-published reports upgrade on the fly
Occurs on first use by a user
Side-by-side with SSRS 2008 supported

37. Programmatic Interface Changes
SOAP Namespaces Versions have not changed
Old clients continue to work
New methods have been added inline
Revised RDL schema
Better Charts support
Tablix structure replaces Table, Matrix, List
WMI Namespaces
Changed to work better across versions
2005 WMI namespace is not supported
New Rendering Object Model
Not backward-compatible with SQL 2005 ROM
New 2008 CRI interface; 2005 CRI interface is supported

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