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Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server
Reporting Services
The students will be introduced to the role
that Reporting Services plays in an organization's reporting life cycle, the
key features offered by Reporting Services, and the components that make up
the Reporting Services architecture.
Lessons
· Overview of SQL Server
Reporting Services
· Installing Reporting
Services
· Reporting Services
Tools
Module 2: Authoring Basic Reports
The students will learn the fundamentals of
report authoring, including configuring data sources and data sets, creating
tabular reports, summarizing data, and applying basic formatting.
Lessons
· Creating a Basic Table
Report
· Formatting Report Pages
· Calculating Values
Module 3: Enhancing Basic Reports
The students will learn about navigational
controls and some additional types of data regions, and how to use them to
enhance a basic report.
Lessons
· Interactive Navigation
· Displaying Data
Module 4: Manipulating Data Sets
The students will explore data sets to a
greater depth, including the use of alternative data sources and interacting
with a data set through the use of parameters. Students will learn how to
dynamically modify the data set underlying a data region by allowing
parameters to be sent to the underlying query, as well as will learn to use
best practices to implement static and dynamic parameter lists when
interacting with queries and stored procedures.
Lessons
· Defining Report Data
· Using Parameters and
Filters
· Using Parameter Lists
Module 5: Using Report Models
The students will learn how to create a report
model so that business users can create their own reports without using the
full Report Designer development environment. Students will also learn how to
use Report Builder to create a report from a report model.
Lessons
· Creating Report Models
· Using Report Builder
Module 6: Publishing and Executing Reports
The students will learn the various options you
can use to publish reports to the report server and execute them.
Lessons
· Publishing Reports
· Executing Reports
· Creating Cached
Instances
· Creating Snapshots and
Report History
Module 7: Using Subscriptions to Distribute
Reports
The students will learn how to implement
subscriptions so that you can distribute reports either automatically by
e-mail or by publishing reports to a shared folder.
Lessons
· Introduction to Report
Subscriptions
· Creating Report
Subscriptions
· Managing Report
Subscriptions
Module 8: Administering Reporting Services
The students will learn how to administer the
Reporting Services server, how to monitor and optimize the performance of the
report server, how to maintain the Reporting Services databases, and how to
keep the system secure.
Lessons
· Reporting Server
Administration
· Performance and
Reliability Monitoring
· Administering Report
Server Databases
· Security Administration
· Upgrading to Reporting
Services 2008
Module 9: Programming Reporting Services
The students will learn how to query Reporting
Services information programmatically and how to automate report management
tasks. Students will also learn how to render reports without relying on
Report Manager, and how to extend the feature set of a report server by
creating custom code.
Lessons
· Querying for Server
Information Using a Web Service
· Automating Report
Management
· Rendering Reports
· Creating Custom Code
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