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SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook

By : Dinesh Priyankara, Robert Cain
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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

Becoming a Report Portal System Administrator


In order to perform the remaining recipes, you will need to be a system administrator on the report portal. On a new installation, only the administrators of the computer upon which SSRS is running will have rights to the server. Thus, the first thing you'll want to do is add your Windows ID (or a Windows Active Directory Group you are part of) to the list of administrators.

Once you've done that, you'll then need to give yourself permissions to the Home folder. Let's see how.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you will need to be logged into the computer upon which SQL Server Reporting Services is running (remote desktop is fine), and your ID must be one of the administrators for that system.

How to do it...

  1. Access the computer upon which SSRS is installed.

  2. Right-click on your web browser (Internet Explorer is recommended) and select Run as Administrator.

  3. Navigate to the report portal, typically http://servername/reports or http://localhost/reports...