Introduction to SSRS Report Builder

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INTRO TO SSRS REPORT BUILDER

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Agenda

Installation What isn’t Report Builder? What is Report Builder? Why? Demo

Installation Woes

Hosts Windows 7 4Gb 64 bit Gateway Windows Vista 2.5Gb 32 bit Dell

Guests Server 2008 Windows 7 Server 2003 SBE

Virtualization VirtualBox VPC 2007

SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (download) 2008 Standard (DVD)

What isn’t Report Builder

BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio

ReportViewer control you can drag onto .net project design surface in Visual Studio

Reporting Services management web page

What is it

Winform client side report creation tool

Stand-alone install (v 3.0) or Download from Report Manager

website

Why use it

Visual Studio BIDS not required Non-power users Prototyping Local reports

Demo

Report Builder 3.0 samples

References

http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3520116/Introduction-to-SQL-Server-Report-Builder.htm

http://dean-o.blogspot.com/2008/09/add-reporting-services-to-existing.html

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