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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
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Preface

Creating dashboards using Reporting Services


Dashboards are becoming commonplace in both large and small business. It's possible to create dashboards in SharePoint so that we can use Reporting Services reports for its information.

It does so through the use of web parts. Web parts are self-contained pieces of functionality that you can place onto a SharePoint page. After configuring Reporting Services into SharePoint a new web part will become available, one for SQL Server Reporting Services.

Using these web parts we'll create a new page and add three reports to it in order to form a dashboard.

Getting ready

There's quite a bit of setup work to do for this recipe. We'll need to create three reports that will be contained on our dashboard. For two of the reports we will recycle reports we created earlier in the book.

For the first, open Report Builder and follow the basic instructions found in Chapter 2, Authoring Reports with SQL Server Data Tools . In this version, simply embed the data source...