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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

Monitoring Reporting Services


Although the deployed reporting solution works fine, we need to understand the user experience with deployed reports for improving the performance of the solution. Not only that, we need to make sure that the solution deployed is healthy and it has enough resources for processing requests received from end users.

For this, we need to keep on monitoring Reporting Services processes and activities performed by users. There can be a situation where user suddenly experiences slowness of a report or a crash with a report that has been working for long time without any issue. We need to make sure that information for all of these is captured and available for analysis when required.

Getting ready

There are no built-in tools or components for monitoring Reporting Services given with Reporting Services. We can use tools like Task Manager, Event Viewer or Performance Counter for monitoring and troubleshooting Reporting Services but remember, they are not specifically built...