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SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook

By : Dinesh Priyankara, Robert Cain
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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

How to use datasets for mobile reporting


Now that the datasets are created, it's time to incorporate them into your report. In this recipe, we'll add the datasets and then tie them to the report elements we've placed on the designer.

Getting ready

This recipe builds on the previous ones, so make sure you have completed them before proceeding. Have the Mobile Report Publisher open and set up to look like the end of the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Click on the Data tab.

  2. In the upper right, click on the Add data button:

    Figure 6.13

  3. The Add data window appears. Select Report server as the source:

    Figure 6.14

  4. Select the server from the list of servers you've used before. If the server you want doesn't appear, you can cancel and use the Servers button in the upper toolbar (next to the Save As button) to add another server reference to the report.

  5. Click on the Datasets folder to open it.

  6. In the Datasets folder, select the DashboardData dataset you created earlier in the chapter:

    Figure 6.15

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