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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

Managing reports with the Web Portal


Once a report is uploaded to Reporting Services, it may need some modifications on configurations in order to make the report available for end users. It can be related to data sources, security or even parameter values. One reason for these modifications could be, the environment used for development. During development, you may use different databases in different servers as data sources for the report. You may set testing values as default values for parameters. But they need to be changed once it is deployed to a different environment, generally to production environment. This is why we need to manage reports once they are uploaded.

Getting ready

We can use the Reporting Services Web Portal for managing the reports. It is easier to manage reports using the portal rather than changing configurations either manually or using another editor. Let's see how a report can be managed using the portal by reviewing and changing few configurations.

Note

Note that...