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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

Creating a KPI with predefined values


A Key Performance Indicator is a measurable value that indicates the progress of the business and whether the target set is achieved or not. Many business users prefer to see the performance of business objectives established using KPIs rather than reading details of many transactional records because KPIs are always shown as visual indicators and it is easy to understand their status.

They are created by business users, not by developers though it is possible with some implementations. There was no direct support specifically designed for KPIs with previous versions of Reporting Services. Generally, the given data regions such as Gauge were used for adding and showing KPIs and they were always shown inside another data region such as Table or Matrix. Microsoft Reporting Services 2016 facilitates us creating KPIs easily and adding them to reports directly without embedding them to another data region.

Getting ready

Remember, you cannot use SQL Data Tools...