What is SQL Reporting Services? Steps in Creating a Report Demo: Creating a Report Reports over cubes Interactive reports Hands on Lab

1. SQL Server 2008 for Business Intelligence UTS Short Course

2. Peter Gfader Specializes in C# and .NET (Java not anymore) TestingAutomated tests Agile, ScrumCertified Scrum Trainer Technology aficionado Silverlight ASP.NET Windows Forms

3. Admin Stuff Attendance You initial sheet Hands On Lab You get me to initial sheet Homework Certificate At end of 5 sessions If I say if you have completed successfully 

4. Course Website Course Timetable & Materials http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Events/2010UTSSQL/ Resources http://sharepoint.ssw.com.au/Training/UTSSQL/

5. Course Overview

6. Last week(s) Cubes What is a cube? Measures/Facts? Dimensions? Hierarchies? Time Dimensions? Cube Browser? Why?

7. Where does the cube live? Why do we need to provide "Impersonation Information" in our Data Source? What is a dimension hierarchy? Homework

8. Session 3: Tonight’s Agenda What is SQL Reporting Services? Steps in Creating a Report Demo: Creating a Report Hands on Lab

9. Why are we doing this?

10. Business Intelligence Defined Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. Answer questions

11. The plan

12. Step by step to BI Create Data Warehouse Copy data to data warehouse Create OLAP Cubes Create Reports Do some Data Mining Discovering a Relationship that was not obvious Predict future events (e.g. targeting and forecasting)

13. SSRS

14. What is SQL Server Reporting? Reporting platform Traditional Interactive reports Scalable and manageable server infrastructure Integrated with SharePoint Office applications Browser and other familiar tools Single platform and tools for all types of structured data Relational Hierarchical Multidimensional

15. SQL Server BI Platform Reporting Services Management Tools Development Tools Analysis Services OLAP & Data Mining Integration Services ETL SQL Server Relational Engine

16. Management Delivery Authoring Reporting Lifecycle Reporting Services is an open and extensible platform supporting the authoring, management and delivery of rich, interactive reports to the entire enterprise.

17. Report Authoring

18. Report Authoring Reports are defined in Report Definition Language (RDL), a documented XML schema Use Microsoft or 3rd party tools that support RDL Create single reports from multiple data sources(SQL, OLE DB, ODBC, Oracle, and .NET data providers) More info on the RDL spec: www.microsoft.com/sql/reporting

19. Report Authoring - Controls Data regions Tablix (New in SQL 2008) Table List (like Access) Matrix Chart Gauge Subreports Images Custom Controls

20. Tablix Generalized layout report item Grouped and Detail data

21. Tablix - Table Use a table to display detail data Organize the data in row groups, or both. The Table template contains three columns with a table header row and a details row for data.

22. Tablix - Matrix Use a matrix to display aggregated data summaries Grouped in rows and columns, similar to a PivotTable or crosstab. The number of rows and columns for groups is determined by the number of unique values for each row and column groups

23. Tablix - List Use a list to create a free-form layout. You are not limited to a grid layout, but can place fields freely inside the list. You can use a list to design a form for displaying many dataset fields or as a container to display multiple data regions side by side for grouped data.

24. Charts

25. Charts

26. Charts

27. Gauge

28. Interactive reports

29. Drill-through Reports Start in Report Builder Get the data you want In report properties choose Allow users to drill to this report option Optionally customize in Report Designer

30. Document maps Collapse / Expand Actions Interactivity

31. Report Management

32. Report Management Report definitions, folders, and resources are published and managed in a reporting web service Managed reports can be executed either on-demand or via schedule and can be cached for consistency and performance Scalable & Extensible server architecture

33. SQL Server Reporting Architecture

34. Report Manager

35. Configuration Manager

36. Report Delivery

37. Report Delivery Traditional (paper) and interactive (web) reports On-demand (“pull”) or event-based (“push”) delivery Choose from multiple formats (HTML, Excel, PDF, XML, Word) Deliver reports to many devices (e-mail, file share, etc.) Ad-hoc Reporting

39. Interactive analysis

40. High performance

41. Powerful calculations

42. Detail reporting

43. Standard reporting

44. Ad hoc reporting

46. SSAS for better performance and business metrics

48. Report Builder v2

49. It’s fantastic but…. It doesn’t ship with SQL 2008 It is part of SP1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=DBDDC9B6-6E19-4D4B-9309-13F62901B0D5&displaylang=en

50. Report Builder v3 Only for SQL Server R2 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d3173a87-7c0d-40cc-a408-3d1a43ae4e33&displaylang=en

51. Report generation

52. Server side

53. Server side

54. Reportviewer Control in "local mode" ASP.NET Windows Forms Silverlight WPF Client side

55. Client-side

56. All about the ReportViewer control http://www.gotreportviewer.com/ Community site with reports to learn from http://www.reportsurfer.com/ Resources

57. SQL Server UG 6/10/2010 - lunch time - City Delivering BI to the Masses at Microsoft Using CBI (Consolidated BI) Top 10 Challenges (Sanjay Soni) http://www.sqlserver.org.au/ Usergroups

58. Summary What is Reporting Services? Steps in Creating a Report Demo: Creating a Report Hands on Lab http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterSQLReportingServices.aspx

59. 3things… PeterGfader@ssw.com.au http://blog.gfader.com/ twitter.com/peitor

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