management capabilities. Default URL that invokes Report Manager is http://<server>/reports. Report Model Designer Generates report models for use in Report Builder. Report Builder Provides drag-and-drop, easy-to-use report design functionality. Report Builder is an ad hoc end-user report authoring and publishing tool executed on a client computer. Report Designer Allows developers to develop complex reports. Report Designer is a comprehensive report authoring and publishing tool, hosted in Business Intelligence Development Studio or Visual Studio. Security extensions Enable authentication and authorization of users and groups. Developers can (excluding SQL Server Express edition) create new security extensions. SQL Server Management Studio Provides administrators with Windows integrated environment to manage SQL Server components including SSRS. From the report management perspective, Management Studio has similar functionality to Report Manager, but provides additional capabilities, such as consolidated web-farm management. Reporting Services Provide administrators with functionality to start and stop Report
The Properties window the properties of an object. You use this window to view and change the properties of objects, such as packages, that are open in editors and designers Toolbox Window The Toolbox window always displays the General tab, and may also display tabs such as Control Flow Items, Maintenance Tasks, Data Flow Sources, or Report Items. Some designers and editors do not use items from the Toolbox. In that case the Toolbox contains only the General tab. Designer Window The Designer window is the tool window in you create or modify business intelligence objects. The designer provides both a code view and a design view of an object. When you open an object in a project, the object opens within a specialized designer in this window. For example, if you open a data source view in any of the business intelligence projects, the designer window opens using the Data Source View designer. Working with Solutions and Projects: When you create a new solution, Business Intelligence Development Studio adds a Solution folder to Solution Explorer and creates files that have the extensions .sln and .suo. · The *.sln file contains information about solution configuration and lists the projects in the solution. · The *.suo file contains information your preferences for working with the solution. SSRS Stands for SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS Databases • ReportServer Stores all the reporting services assets Reports Datasources Security Snapshots & Histories Schedules & Subscriptions • ReportServerTempDB Stores temporary “Intermediate Reports” • Sizes of the DBs depends on Number of Reports Execution Properties What is a Report? A report is a combination of kinds of information: Data or information about how to obtain the data (queries) as well as the structure of the data.
Step 1: click on the column header and choose Textbox Properties. Step 2: Choose Interactive Sort from the Textbox properties dialog and the checkbox for Enable interactive sort on this Textbox Choose Player ID field from the Sort by drop down. And we are done. Let us perform the same for PlayerNamefield.Now run the report As can be seen that the sorting has been enabled on two columns and the report is presented in descending of Player ID. Paging in SSRS report This section will give us the way of generating custom paging in our report. We will also learn the use of Global variable in doing so. Step 1: In the report design screen, right click and from the context menu, choose Add Page Footer Once the Page Footer is added, we can then add controls to it. Step 2: Let us add four textboxes from the Report Item toolbox onto the designer as shown under Step 3: Choose the 2nd textbox and click on the Expression Step 4: From the expression window that opens, let us write the expression =Globals!PageNumber Similarly for the 4th Textbox, let us the expression as =Globals!TotalPages.