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SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook

By : Dinesh Priyankara, Robert Cain
Book Image

SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook

By: Dinesh Priyankara, Robert Cain

Overview of this book

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services comes with many new features. It offers different types of reporting such as Production, Ad-hoc, Dashboard, Mash-up, and Analytical. SQL Server 2016 also has a surfeit of new features including Mobile Reporting, and Power BI integration. This book contains recipes that explore the new and advanced features added to SQL Server 2016. The first few chapters cover recipes on configuring components and how to explore these new features. You’ll learn to build your own reporting solution with data tools and report builder, along with learning techniques to create visually appealing reports. This book also has recipes for enhanced mobile reporting solutions, accessing these solutions effectively, and delivering interactive business intelligence solutions. Towards the end of the book, you’ll get to grips with running reporting services in SharePoint integrated mode and be able to administer, monitor, and secure your reporting solution. This book covers about the new offerings of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services in comprehensive detail and uses examples of real-world problem-solving business scenarios.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.Packtpub.com
Preface

Introduction


The primary tool for administering and managing Reporting Services is Report Portal which is used for managing the published items. In addition to this, Reporting Services Configuration Manager and SQL Server Configuration Manager tools are given for handling various administrative tasks.

Before exploring functionalities and the way of managing the content, we need to understand the reasons for management.

Once a reporting solution is published to the Reporting Services, first thing we need to understand is how it works. In high level, when a request is made for a report by an end user, it reads the report definition, process it with data assigned and then finally it renders the report as per the format requested. It actually creates a standard output just after data and report processing called Intermediate Format used for rendering the final report to end user, caching and holding snapshots as well.

In most cases, since development environment is different with the production...