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SQL Server Reporting Services: Presenting Data for Business Intelligence

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Learning Tree International

Topic(s):
Computers & Software > Data Base

Who Should Attend?
This course is valuable for those designing, creating or delivering reports from a database. Previous exposure to any database system or spreadsheet data is assumed.

Full Seminar Description

You will learn how to

• Leverage SQL Server Reporting Services to produce sophisticated reports
• Author robust reports that extract business intelligence out of your data
• Extract relevant report data using parameters and filters
• Render interactive reports with drill-down and drill-through features
• Deploy reports to a Report Server for centralized access and administration
• Secure reports in the Reporting Services environment
• Embed reports in WinForm and WebForm applications

Course benefits

In this course, you acquire the knowledge and skills to take full advantage of the power of SQL Server Reporting Services.

Who should attend

Hands-on training

• Authoring free form reports including images, calculated fields and groups
• Importing Microsoft Access reports
• Designing reports for international audiences
• Implementing advanced navigation using drill down, drill through and document maps
• Pulling report data from Analysis Services
• Creating cached instances, snapshots and subscriptions
• Configuring and testing security on report items
• Building and applying a currency converter function

Course content

• Report types and formats
• RS Web Service
• Report Server
• Report Builder
• Model Designer
• Data sources: SQL Server, Oracle, OLE DB
• Single and Web farm deployment

AUTHORING REPORTS

• Creating basic reports
• Tabular
• List
• Matrix
• Chart
• Constructing data sources and Datasets
• Inserting a data region, fields and images
• Leveraging expressions
• Calculating fields
• Built-in collections
• Integrating expressions in properties
• Applying conditional formatting
• Grouping and sorting data
• Grouping to multiple levels
• Employing aggregate functions
• Sorting the results

IMPLEMENTING PARAMETERS AND FILTERS

• Building parameters into reports
• Returning subsets of data with query parameters
• Mapping report parameters to query parameters
• Building cascading report parameters
• Changing chart titles programmatically
• Designing reports for the user's national language
• Passing parameters to stored procedures
• Exploiting multi-valued parameters
• Restricting report data with filters
• Enhancing performance with filters
• Filters vs. query parameters

LEVERAGING ADVANCED REPORTING FEATURES

• Combining data regions in one report
• Utilizing sequential and nested regions
• Producing master/detail reports
• Linking subreports
• Presenting data with appropriate detail
• Revealing report detail with drill down
• Displaying related data with drill through
• Navigating with document maps
• Reporting on non-relational data sources
• Building reports on Analysis Services cubes
• Returning cube data and generating MDX using the MDX Builder
• Creating reports on XML data sources

DEPLOYING AND DELIVERING REPORTS

• Deploying reports to the server
• Preparing reports for publishing
• Configuring project properties
• Units of deployment: Individual reports, projects, solutions, data sources
• Checking results with Report Manager
• Reviewing results with SQL Server
• Selecting delivery options
• On-demand or by subscription
• Improving performance with cached instances and snapshots
• Configuring snapshot history
• Sending subscription reports
• Making reports available via e-mail and fileshare
• Delivering reports flexibly through data-driven subscriptions

SECURING REPORTING SERVICES

• Securing the RS environment
• Mapping out a security plan
• Assigning users to roles
• Setting permissions on report items
• Granting and revoking system-level permissions
• Empowering users with ad-hoc reporting
• Architecting report models with Model Designer
• Defining data source views
• Creating and retiring models
• Simplifying report models through denormalization
• Creating reports with Report Builder
• Deploying Report Builder to users
• Dragging and dropping entities onto charts and tabular reports
• Navigating data with infinite drill through

PROGRAMMING REPORTING SERVICES

• Controlling reports using URL access
• Exploiting RS Web services
• Writing a Windows application with Report Viewer controls
• Embedding reports in applications

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