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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

Introduction


Being a report developer, what we really need is an environment that helps us to make great reporting solutions using modern techniques and well-equipped tools. If the tool makes report design complex and hard-to-manage, then output of the effort will not be as good as everyone expects. It will not only discourage us from continuing to use the tool, but also force us to go for another tool. Knowing this, Microsoft has been maintaining its standard and it has done it again, giving us more enhancements on the toolset that we use for creating reports.

End users always prefer to see a pleasant output on required information. They consider the appearance of the output, whether it is properly structured, whether the right visual element has been used, and whether it supports the analysis they need to do on it. Microsoft has not forgotten the end-user-experience; considering the importance of it, just like the improvement on development, many enhancements have been done in various areas...