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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

Handling security on shared data sources


In the Authorizing users for accessing reports via SSRS roles recipe, you saw how to manage access to folders via roles. Now take a moment to think all the way back to Chapter 3 , Advanced Report Authoring with SQL Server Data Tools, specifically the How to publish reports recipe. In it, the reports you deployed were placed in a folder named Chapter 3 , Advanced Report Authoring with SQL Server Data Tools. However, the data sources went into their own Data Sources folder. It is quite common in an organization for all data sources to go into a shared folder.

How, then, can you allow a user to access some of the data sources in a folder, but not all of them? Well, fortunately that is quite easy, as you'll see in this recipe.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, you'll need a few things. First, you'll need a test account, which you will remove from certain roles (Obviously, you won't want to do this to yourself.) The account we set up is TestUser1...