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• Module 1: Introduction to Reporting Services

This module introduces Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, its components, and the tools used to work with it.

Lessons

• • Introduction to reporting services
  • Reporting services components
  • Reporting services tools

Lab: Exploring reporting services

• • Exploring reports
  • Reporting services configuration

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• • Give a context for Reporting Services.
  • Describe the components of Reporting Services.
  • Explain Reporting Services tools
• Module 2: Reporting Services Data Sources

Almost every report that you publish by using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) will be built using data that’s obtained from one or more source systems. This lesson explains how to configure SSRS to interact with source data systems by working with data sources.

Lessons

• • Data sources
  • Connection strings
  • Datasets

Lab: Configuring data access with report builder

• • Configuring data access with report builder

Lab: Configuring data access with report designer

• • Configuring data access with report designer

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• • Describe data sources
  • Work with connection strings.
  • Describe datasets
• Module 3: Creating Paginated Reports

Now that you have learned about BI and data modelling, and how to access data from Report Designer and Report Builder, you need to learn how to create reports. This module shows you how to create different types of reports in both applications, in addition to using the Report Wizard.

Lessons

• • Creating a report with the report wizard
  • Creating a report
  • Publishing a report

Lab: Creating reports

• • Use the report wizard – report designer
  • Use the report wizard – report builder
  • Creating and publishing a report – report designer
  • Creating and publishing a report – report builder

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• • Create a report with the report wizard
  • Create a report using report builder or report designer
  • Publish a report to reporting services
• Module 4: Working with Reporting Services Data

It is common for business requirements to change regarding the information they need and how they want data presented. On viewing a detailed report, senior management might ask for higher level, summarized, or filtered versions of the same report. Report Builder and Report Designer support these scenarios via filtering, sorting, drilldowns, grouping and the parameterizing of reports. In this module, you will see how to use filters and parameters to make reports more dynamic and useful to business users.

Lessons

• • Data filters
  • Report parameters
  • Implementing report filters and parameters

Lab: Create a parameterized report

• • Using parameters in report designer
  • Using parameters in report builder

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• • Filter data in reports
  • Use parameters in reports
• Module 5: Visualizing Data with Report Services

As the amount of data being generated continues to grow, the need to make sense of its meaning increases. You use data visualization to make data easier to understand, and faster to interpret. Data visualizations highlight comparisons, show trends, and convey scale much faster than a table of numbers could. The detail is important, but visualizations are a highly effective way of conveying meaning and insights quickly and accurately.

Lessons

• • Formatting data
  • Images and charts
  • Databars, sparklines, indicators, gauges, and maps

Lab: Manage formatting

• • Report designer
  • Report builder

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• • Format data in reports
  • Use images and charts in your reports
  • Use databars, sparklines, and indicators in reports
  • Explain what a KPI is and how it’s used
• Module 6: Summarizing Report Data

As the amount of data we need to deal with increases, so does the requirement to manage data by grouping and summarizing. In this module, you will learn how to create group structures, summarize data, and provide interactivity in your reports, so that users see the level of detail or summary that they need.

Lessons

• • Sorting and grouping
  • Report sub-reports
  • Drilldown and drill through

Lab: Summarizing report data

• • Sorting and grouping in report builder
  • Sorting and grouping in report designer

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• • Group and sort data in reports
  • Create report sub-sections
  • Use drill down and drill through