The document provides an overview of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and its components, including report items, data sources, and various report types such as tables and charts. It describes the functionalities of key components like report server, report manager, report builder, and report designer, as well as the SSRS environment modes. Additionally, it highlights the integration of .NET code for enhanced reporting capabilities and access to multiple data sources.

1. Getting Started with SQL
Reporting Services
Hosted by Kacie Frey
Presented by Jeff Lininger

2. SSRS Terminology
• Report Items
– Text boxes, Rectangle, Image
• Data Regions
– An item that displays repeated rows of data
– List – data arranged in a free form fashion
– Table- a banded, tabular report
– Matrix- a cross-tab (or pivot table) report
– Chart- a graph
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3. SSRS Terminology (cont.)
• Data Source – a database
• DataSet – a query against a datasource
• Sub Report
– Report embedded within a report.
• Drill Down Report
– Allows information to collapsed / expanded on
the report.
• Drill Through Report
– Report link to jump to more detailed reports.
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4. What is SSRS
• Report Server
• Report Manager
• Report Builder
• Model Designer
• Report Designer
• Report Viewer
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5. SSRS Components
• Report Server
– Processes report requests and makes on demand
access or scheduled distribution.
• Report Manager
– View, Search, Subscribe to reports
• Report Builder
– Designed for users familiar with Office to quickly build
reports.
– Uses predefined Report Models to drag and drop
report items onto data regions.
– A ClickOnce Winform application which runs on the
client’s machine and publishes reports as RDL files to
the Report Server.
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6. SSRS Components (cont.)
• Model Designer
– Used to define, edit, and publish models used
in Report Builder
• A Report Model
– A business description of the underlying
database.
– Describes data in terms of entities, attributes
and relationships (roles) which users can use
to build ad hoc reports using Report Builder.
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7. SSRS Components (cont.)
• Report Designer
– Tools hosted within Visual Studio environment
– Design
– Preview Layout
– Publish to a Server
• Report Viewer
– Allows WinForm apps to display SSRS reports
in local mode
– Report Viewer wrapped in additional
functionality (ROI) is used in Dynamics SL
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8. SSRS Environment
• Local Mode – report viewer, ROI
• Native Mode – Report Server, Report
Manager, etc.
• Integrated Mode –
– SharePoint integration
– Web parts available to view reports
– SharePoint security access of report
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9. SSRS Environment (cont.)
• Multiple data bases
• Multiple data sets
• Easy to integrate .NET code with report
– More complex functions than SSRS functions
– .NET code can integrate other data sources
(for example data from a web service)
– Secure customized reports
• Extensible interfaces to access data from
non database data sources
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