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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

Positioning parameters


It is true that most of the formal reports (or production report) are parameterized. We add parameters to the report for making it look dynamic and flexible without making it a static report. Therefore, report parameterization is one of the key features in designing, hence it needs flexibility.

Since Reporting Services inception, we can add parameters to reports. Parameters are shown in a layout that is fixed for two columns. We have no way of changing the position we need, but it allows us to change the order. A parameter pane in a report with one or two parameters does not look unorganized, but a pane with more than two parameters may look disorganized and untidy. Assume that you have a report that shows City, Start Date, and End Date as parameters. If the order of them is set as City, Start Date, and End Date, then City and Start Date will be displayed in the first row and End Date will be displayed in the second row. That makes the report parameter pane look disorganized...