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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

Assigning configured data sources to published reports


Even though the complete solution is published, we continuously change existing reports and add new reports. Sometime, we author the report separately completely outside the solution and, upload the report to the portal as a new report. This requires configuring data source to upload report.

Getting ready

Let us create new solution and a new report. Once the report is created, let's upload it manually rather using the SQL Server Data Tools.

Follow the steps for creating the report:

  1. Open the SQL Server Data Tools and create a new project using Reporting Services template. Name the project as Chapter10.

  2. Create a report called DataSetCustomers.

  3. Create a dataset using WideWorldImportersDW database. Make sure that you create the data source as a Shared Data Source.

  4. Use the following code for getting data:

          SELECT Customer, Category, [Buying Group]  
          FROM Dimension.Customer 
          ORDER BY Customer; 
    
  5. Name data source as WideWorldImportersDW...