A very quick and basic introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services Report Builder. Presentation was 25 minutes with Demo.

1. fwPASS Stuff Topic survey results and fun facts

2. Requested topics 8Indexes 7Maintenance plans 6Performance tuning 6Reporting Services 5Profiling 4SSIS 4SSAS 3PowerPivot 3DMV’s 2Query writing 2XML 2Internals 1PowerShell 1Cloud/Azure 1VLDB Very Large Database 1SMO

3. SELECT * FROM fwPASS.Stats WHERE Year=2010 and Month <= 7 88 Attendees 42 liters of soda 30 pizzas 10 orders bread sticks

4. Intro to SSRS Report Builder presented to fwPASS on July 27, 2010

5. Agenda Installation What isn’t Report Builder? What is Report Builder? Why? Demo

6. Installation Woes Hosts Windows 7 4Gb 64 bit Gateway Windows Vista 2.5Gb 32 bit Dell Guests Server 2008 Windows 7 Server 2003 SBE Virtualization VirtualBox VPC 2007 SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (download) 2008 Standard (DVD)

7. What isn’t Report Builder BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio ReportViewer control you can drag onto .net project design surface in Visual Studio Reporting Services management web page

8. What is it Winform client side report creation tool Stand-alone install (v 3.0) or Download from Report Manager website

9. Why use it Visual Studio BIDS not required Non-power users Prototyping Local reports

10. Demo

11. Report Builder 3.0 samples

12. References http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3520116/Introduction-to-SQL-Server-Report-Builder.htm http://dean-o.blogspot.com/2008/09/add-reporting-services-to-existing.html

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