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MSBI-SSRS IntroductionFriday 14, 2011

Prepared By

Hussain Syed

hussain.syed@mresult.com

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OVERVIEW OF PRESENTATION:

• Introduction to MSBI.

• SSRS in MSBI- Architecture.

• SSRS Architecture.

• SSRS 2008 Features.

• Start Working with SSRS.

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE:

“Providing Right Information at the Right-Time in the Right-Format to the Decision-Makers.”

Microsoft Vision & StrategyDemocratizing Business Intelligence

Improving organizations by providing business insights to all employees leading to

better, faster, more relevant decisions

Supported By A Trusted BI PlatformYour data, any place, any time

Pervasive Insight

Dynamic Development

Beyond Relational

Enterprise Data Platform

Mobile andDesktop

OLAPFILE

XMLRDBMS

Entity Data Model

Services

Query

Analysis

Reporting Integration

Synch

Search

CloudServer

Changing The BI Market DynamicsNew economics encourage widespread deployment For Similar Customer Budgets

BI Users Departments Served

Typical BI deployment

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END USER TOOLS & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPS

Excel PerformancePoint Server

BI PLATFORM

SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL Server DBMS

SQL Server Integration Services

SharePoint Server

DELIVERY

Reports Dashboards Excel Workbooks

AnalyticViews Scorecards Plans

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SQL Server Reporting Services(SSRS) is a reporting software application from Microsoft.

SSRS actually runs within Visual Studio, in an application called BIDS (Business Intelligence Design Studio).

SSRS Components:

BIDS – Visual Studio shell (data mgt, report design, deployment)

Report Server

Report Builder

Report Manager

VS integration via Report Viewer Control

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Overview - SSRS Components

(BIDS)

Visual Studio

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SQL Server Reporting Architecture

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The New features in the SQL Server 2008 release of Reporting Services were in four general areas:

Report Authoring

Report Processing and Rendering

Server Architecture and Tools

Report Programmability

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The Report Designer gained new data regions, a new data source type (a new data processing extension for Teradata) and an improved design / authoring experience.

SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services also introduces two new data regions, the Tablix and Gauge.

The Tablix data region combines the previously independent table, list and matrix into a single data region, with more versatile grouping of rows and columns to allow for better customization.

Report Authoring

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Table

Matrix

List

Tablix

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Gauge

• Useful for showing KPI information on a report– KPI – Key Performance Indicator

• Two types– Radial– Linear

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Gauge

• Cannot change type once it’s added– Need to delete and add the control as a different type

• Can have 1-n scales displayed• Must use aggregate values

– SUM – numeric data– COUNT – text data

• Set the scale range maximum and minimum

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Report Processing and Rendering

SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services included a new rendering extension for Microsoft Word, and improvements to the rendering extensions for Microsoft Excel and CSV.

The improvements help to ensure that all rendering extensions handle soft and logical page breaks consistently.

We can also improve the processing of reports on large amounts of data by using On-Demand Report Processing:

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Native support for HTTP.SYS and ASP.NET.

URL management for site and virtual directory names.

A new authentication layer.

Health monitoring through newly designed memory management features.

Server Architecture and Tools

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• The Reporting Services Configuration tool.

• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS),

• Report Manager (for a native mode report server).

• SharePoint application pages (for SharePoint integrated mode).

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Report Server Programmability

SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services introduces a new server extension called the Report Definition Customization extension.

This provides report definition preprocessing, allowing us to dynamically customize a report definition before its passage to the processing engine, based upon values dictated within the RDL

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Start Working With SSRS

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Following are Steps to Create Shared Data Source

Step 1:Open BIDS: Click on Start –> All Programs –> SQL Server 2008 –> SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio

Step 2 :From the menu bar, select File –> New –> Project

Step 3 :In the Solution Explorer pane, right click on Shared Data Sources folder –> click on Add New Data Source. Which open Shared Data Source Properties dialog.

Step 4 :Enter Data Source name in Name textbox (we are taking MyFirstSSRSSharedDataSource) and shown as Microsoft SQL Server.

Step 5 :Click on Edit button to set connection string.

Step 6:Enter Server name and Database name from dropdown boxes. Finally click on Test Connection to check the connection.

Step 7:Click OK to complete and save changes. Now you can see MyFirstSSRSSharedDataSourcedata source in Solution Explorer pane

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Report Desinger

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Main Features of Report Designer

The Datasets window shows the data that is available to the report.

The main design window lets you view the report itself.

The Solution Explorer, Output, and Properties windows are the standard Visual Studio windows.

You can change the available data or the sort order for the report by modifying the query on the Data tab.

You can resize or rearrange controls on the Layout tab.

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Solution Explorer in SSRS is as shown

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Right Click on above and select ‘Add New Data Source’

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Give Name as MyFirstSSRSShared Data Source

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We have following bunch of option to use as Data Source

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Don’t need to write or remember connection string just click on edit

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Connection Properties

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You can specify various credentials to this shared Data source as security reports is must

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Click on ok and you will see shared data source is ready to use in your solution explore

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Report Data

• New Data Pane– Built-in Fields

• Total Pages, Execution Time, Page Number, User ID, etc.

– Parameters

• Report Parameters– Images– DataSets

• Example: AdventureWorks

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Data Sources

• Now supports TeraData data sources • Still supported:

> XML> SAP NetWeaver BI> Hyperion ESSBase

> SQL Server

> Oracle

> OLEDB

> ODBC

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Tool Box

• New Items added in SSRS 2008 R2:– Chart– Gauge

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Charts

• Many new charts added to this version

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SSRS Example Reports

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SSRS Example Reports

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Resources

/Tablix :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645966.aspxGuage: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281374.aspx

https://bimentalist.wordpress.com/ssrs/

http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/reporting-services/new-features-in-reporting-services-2008-and-2008-r2/

New Features in Reporting Services 2008 and 2008 R2 ( Bill Pearson): Adventure Works Report Samples:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337432(SQL.90).aspx

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THANK YOU