MS2030 Creating Reporting Solutions using Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 Reporting Services

2days—Instructor-led

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have: MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database Administrator) certification or equivalent knowledge.

· Exposure to Visual Studio .NET.

· Exposure to creating reports in Microsoft Access or third party reporting products.

· Experience navigating the Microsoft Windows Server™ environment.

· Experience with Microsoft Windows® services

· Starting and stopping services.

· Creating service accounts and permissions

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

No Microsoft Certified Professional exams are associated with this course currently.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

The information in this module introduces the role Reporting Services plays in an organization’s reporting lifecycle, the key features offered by Reporting Services, and the components that make up the Reporting Services architecture.

Module 2: Authoring Basic Reports

In this module, students learn about the fundamentals of report authoring, including how to configure data sources and data sets, create tabular reports, summarize data, and apply basic formatting.

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Module 3: Enhancing Basic Reports

This module introduces some techniques for enhancing a basic report using document maps, actions, and data regions. Document maps provide navigation through a contents page, actions provide a mechanism for creating custom actions (jumping from one report to another for example), and data regions allow data to be displayed in formats such as a matrix or a list.

Module 4: Manipulating Data Sets

In this module, data sets are covered in greater depth, including the use of alternative data sources and interacting with a data set through parameters. Student will learn how to dynamically modify the data set underlying a data region allowing parameters to be sent to the underlying query. This module presents various best practices for dealing with static and dynamic parameter lists when interacting with stored procedures.

Module 5: Managing Content

This module introduces the management of content in the Reporting Services database. The module discusses the process of deploying reports together with the various mechanisms that can be used in deployment. Students learn about the report execution models supported by Reporting Services, including the caching of report instances. Finally, students learn about using subscriptions for report delivery.

Module 6: Administering Reporting Services

This module introduces the administration of the Reporting Services server, the administration of individual jobs, and the administration of the database. In this module, students will learn how to administer the Reporting Services server, monitor and optimize the performance of the Report Server, maintain the Reporting Services databases, and keep the system secure.

Module 7: Programming Reporting Services

This module introduces the programmatic control of Reporting Services. In this module, students will learn how to query Reporting Services information programmatically and how to automate their report management tasks. They will also learn how to render reports without relying on Report Manager and how to create custom code to extend the feature set of the Report Server.