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One-Day Special - SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Take advantage of our intensive personal training and mentoring by Microsoft Certified
expert as you retool and reposition yourself or organization for opportunities in the IT market.
Our expert-level instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through
individualized instruction, hands-on labs, and exercises, independent study, self-testing,
question and answer drills.
In this course, you will learn how to use SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services to create,
execute, and manage reports. You'll explore creating reports with groups, expressions,
conditional formatting, and parameters. The reports you create in the course will employ
shared data sources, interactive sorting, and drill-down capabilities.
You'll explore the deployment and printing of reports and the export of reports to PDF,
Excel, Word and other formats. You'll gain a thorough understanding of Reporting Services
subscriptions, Report Builder and the use of non SQL Server datasource..
Prerequisite
This course assumes no prior knowledge of SSRS, however some exposure to SQL is required.
Training Format
Instructor Led Sessions with Intensive Hands-on Training, utilizing our (Lecture | Lab | Review)
Delivery and Pre/Post-Class Mentoring. Windows 2008 Server (Eval), SQL Server 2008 (Eval) and SSRS installed on
your PC (Laptop preferred)
Bonus : Exposure to Transact-SQL, SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio 2008
Schedule/Next Session
Saturday Only Class: Time - 9am - 6pm : Starting: TBD
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This one-day Special covers the following topics:
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Course Outline
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Introducing SQL Server Reporting Services
• Investigate what SQL Server Reporting Services can do
• Explore the basic architecture of SQL Server Reporting Services
• Gain a basic understanding of the components behind SSRS
• Explore SQL Server Management Studio and Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS)
• Learn how to create a basic report using the SSRS Wizard
Creating Tabular and List Reports
• Learn how to create a tabular report from scratch
• Learn about datasets and data regions
• Discover how to add textboxes and other controls to reports
• Investigate the list data region
• Learn how to work with rich text to produce mail merge style reports
Calculation and Formatting
• Explore how to create expressions in your reports
• Learn how to create custom functions using the Code window
• Discover the various global collections that you can reference in your expressions
• Learn how to format report items using the formatting toolbars, the Properties window,
and the Textbox Properties dialog box
• Find out how you can use conditional formatting to make your reports more dynamic
• Learn about report variables and when you might need to use them
Grouping and Sorting
• Explore creating groups
• Master the Reporting Services Grouping pane
• Learn how to calculate group totals and percentages
• Understand scope as it applies to aggregate functions
• Discover interactive sorting
• Find out how to create drill-down reports
Working with Parameters
• Learn how to create parameters in ad-hoc SQL
• Learn how parameters work with stored procedure parameters
• Find out how to display parameter values in report headers
• Discover how to improve parameter prompts using drop-down list parameters
• Dig into the use of unbound, multivalued, and cascading parameters
• Learn how to solve common parameter issues
Creating Matrix Reports and Charts
• Learn how to create matrix reports
• Investigate Reporting Services charts
• Explore the use of Reporting Services gauges
Managing Reporting Services
• Understand how to plan and configure for deployment
• Learn how to deploy Reporting Services projects and individual reports and data sources
• Explore exporting reports to a variety of formats
• Learn how to use the client-side printing feature of Reporting Services
• Investigate how to manage Reporting Services projects using Report Manager
• Explore creating linked reports
Snapshots and Subscriptions
• Learn how to enable and control report caching
• Investigate the scheduling of report snapshots
• Explore the maintenance of report history
• Discover how to create standard report subscriptions
• Learn how to create data-driven report subscriptions
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