Course Outline
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.
After completing
this module, students will be able to:
Describe the features of SQL Server
Reporting Services.
Install Reporting Services.
Describe the 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.
After completing this module, students will be
able to:
Create a basic table report.
Format report pages.
Calculate
values for a report.
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.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Create
reports with interactive navigation.
Display data in various
formats.
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.
After completing this module,
students will be able to:
Define report data.
Use parameters and
filters.
Use 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.
After completing this module,
students will be able to:
Create Report Models.
Use 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.
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
Publish reports.
Execute reports.
Create cached
instances.
Create 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.
After completing this
module, students will be able to:
Describe report subscriptions.
Create
report subscriptions.
Manage 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.
After completing this module,
students will be able to:
Administer the reporting server.
Monitor
performance and reliability.
Administer the Report Server
databases.
Administer security.
Upgrade 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.
After completing this module,
students will be able to:
Query server information using a Web
service.
Automate report management.
Render reports.
Create custom
code.