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Chapter 17: Video # 1

What Is Reporting Services?

Chapter: Course: Course ID: Instructor: SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services SQL Server 2012 - A Comprehensive Introduction 170 Scott Whigham

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Chapter Listing:
1. Course Introduction 10.

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Why SQL Server 2012?

Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading to SQL Server 2012 Creating & Managing Databases

Writing Queries and Manipulating Data

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12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

Views, Indexes, and Query Plans

Stored Procedures, Triggers, & UDFs Database Security Business Intelligence in 2012 Analysis Services 2012 Integration Services 2012

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Server Security
Backup and Restore High Availability/Disaster Recovery

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Jobs & Automating Maintenance

Creating Tables and Constraints

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Reporting Services 2012

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Chapter Contents:

What is Reporting Services? Types of Reports You Can Create Authoring Tools Installing and Configuring SSRS

Outline

Report Manager Report Builder SQL Server Data Tools FAQs

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Data in the enterprise

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SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (SSRS):

Microsofts report server and report development platform
A served-based report solution

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Reports are developed:

in Report Builder

in Visual Studio
... in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) by hand-writing XML

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Reporting Services reports can be:

stored in a SQL Server Database Engine

a .rdl file
embedded into .NET applications integrated with SharePoint

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Reports can be delivered:

to email, mobile devices, and browsers

via SSRS web service

on a schedule ... when the data changes

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SSRS 2012 101:

Is included at no additional cost when you buy a license to SQL Server 2012 There is a freebie version for Express Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/editions/2012-editions/express.aspx Download SQL Server Express with Advanced Services

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Lets talk a little about the architecture of SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services
SSRS can be anything from a small plaything on one machine to a missioncritical enterprise reporting platform

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There are three components in play:

The client
The one requesting the report

The report server

SSRS

The underlying data that the reports will be built from

SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, etc

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This is traditional client-server architecture

The client makes a request (via a url) of the report server
The report server responds with the report data (or error/info)

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However, when the report server makes the request to the data source, it is also client-server
The client is the report server

The server is the data source

The report author/administrator can specify how to authenticate to the data source

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All client requests to the report server are made via URL
Typically, users are working with applications that feature links to reports or have the reports embedded
This way, users do not need to know URLs

SSRS has its own web server baked in

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The report server does much more than just connecting to the data source and creating the report
It also manages secure access to the reports, can schedule delivery for later times, can render the report in multiple ways, and more

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Course 174 is a full-length SSRS 2012 course

Comprehensive coverage of:
Report design Report creation Dashboards Deployment Administration SharePoint integration and much more!

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In the next video

What Types of Reports Can You Create?

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

- Bill Bowerman

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