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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 reports with nested data regions


In the previous recipe, we used the concept of multiple data regions to display both a graph and a detailed text report in the same report body. Sometimes you would like to be able to provide the users with the at a glance information provided by a chart, but not have a chart tool because it takes up much of the report area. In other words, you'd like to embed a chart within the main body of your text.

SSRS allows you to accomplish this through the concept of nested data regions. In this recipe, we'll see how to create a matrix report and then add a sparkline graph to it in order to show the trending of sales totals for a specific sales territory over time.

Getting ready

For this report, we'll use the report wizard to quickly generate a report with a matrix. We'll then modify the report to add a new column, in which we'll embed our sparkline. A sparkline is a tiny chart that is embedded within tables and matrixes.

Naturally we'll need data. We'll use...