Hands-on Learning Event in Honolulu 2: SQL Server Reporting Services 2012, November 5

The class is forming and is expected to start on November 5, 2015. Please register at the PCATT.ORG site.

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SQL Server 2012 Express or Developer Edition / Evaluation edition will be used. The emphasis is on Native Mode operation of the Reporting Services.

For details you can also write to:
Hodentek@live.com with course name in the Subject line.

Here are Reporting Services books published by the instructor:

You can buy these and many other computer and programming related books here:

https://www.packtpub.com/books/info/authors/jayaram-krishnaswamy

Hands-on Learning Event in Honolulu 2: SQL Server Reporting Services 2012

The class is forming and is expected to start in August 2015. Please register at the PCATT.ORG site.

SQL Server 2012 Express or Developer Edition will be used. The emphasis is on Native Mode operation of the Reporting Services.

For details you can also write to:
Hodentek@live.com with course name in the Subject line.

Here are Reporting Services books published by the instructor:

 

 

You can buy these and many other computer and programming related books here:

https://www.packtpub.com/books/info/authors/jayaram-krishnaswamy

Do you want to create a report with Report Builder using data from SQL Anywhere 16 ?

Report Builder 3.0 is the present version shipped at the same time as SQL Server 2012. It is a one-stop report authoring tool which can even be launched from Report Manager or from a Reporting services Integrated SharePoint Site. Of course you can download and launch it after installing on your desktop.

Report Builder is described in great detail here:

http://jayaramkrishnaswamy.sys-con.com/node/982742
Creating reports using Report Builder 2.0 is described here

http://jayaramkrishnaswamy.sys-con.com/node/1227111

Report Builder 3.0 is described exhaustively in my latest book

Out of the box it can connect to a variety of vendor products and the inclusion of ODBC and OLE DB makes it extremely convenient to connect to many other (not out of the box supported) products.

Case in point is SQL Anywhere Server 16 for which you can set up an ODBC connection.

This post shows you some of the steps that you can follow to turn out a report from SQL Anywhere 16. The following assumes that you have already started the SQL Anywhere Personal server. The procedure has still some unanswered questions, please read the last section.

The following screen shows how you connect to an ODBC source for a connection embedded with the report.

The next slide shows an ODBC System DSN 'demo' created using the SQL Anywhere 16. In reality this ODBC DSN gets registered when you install SQL Anywhere 16.

The next slide shows that connectivity is OK with 'dba' as username and 'sql' as password.

The final connectivity screen after testing the authentication is shown in the next image.

The Credentials for this connection are shown in the next image.

In order to create a dataset for your report use of Query Designer is not possible as it is not supported. You need to have this information on your hand to insert into the Report Builder's data set page.

The next image shows the InteractiveSQL tool in which a SQL Select statement is used to choose a all the fields from the Contacts table.

The dataset will be created using this embedded connection as shown.

For this, the query contacts.sql created in Sybase's InteractiveSQL is used and persisted to the desktop. This is imported into Report Builder's data set interface as shown using the import button

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The next image shows the report designer interface taking in a few columns from the data set shown on the left.

This last image shows the report being displayed in Report Builder 3.0

Caution

While the above procedure is correct you may find problems while repeating this procedure and this will be mainly due to the odbc32 and odbc64 problems as I understand it

However, take a look at my bug report to Microsoft connect here

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/799460/report-displays-correctly-in-ssdt-and-deploys-without-errors-the-same-report-is-not-displayed-in-report-manager-or-report-server

Learn SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services is released

Learning SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services was released today by Packt publishers. This is my second book on Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (which may be called a second edition). It is enlarged to include Reporting Services Integration with SharePoint 2010. With 566 pages it is somewhat thicker than the first edition (Learning SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services). However, the book has a large number of screen shots like my first book and is somewhat thinner than most other books in this genre. The reviewers and technical editors have put in a lot of effort and time to make this happen.

I take this opportunity to thank the reviewers (Satya Shyam Jayanty and Ritesh Shah) for their meticulous reading of the manuscript; the technical editors, Azharuddin Sheik, Mausam Kothari, Varun Pius Rodrigues, and Lubna Shaikh and many others at Pakct Publishing for their excellent editing and Microsoft Forums' (MSDN, TechNet and SharePoint) help for answering so many of my questions.

Summary of Hands-on tasks you learn:

• Install SQL Server 2012, SharePoint Server 2010, and configure Reporting Services both native and SharePoint Integrated on Windows 7
• Install SSDT and author reports, both local and remote, and deploy them to report servers
• Develop desktop and web applications by using Report Viewer controls
• Author different kinds of reports with the latest gadgets by working with Report Builder
• Manage access to the report server, report scheduling, report delivery, report uploads, and downloads with Report Manager
• Create Tabular Models with SQL Server Analysis Services and deploy them to SSAS Server using SSDT
• Author Power View Reports from your SharePoint Site and export them as Power Point files
• Learn to create Data Driven alerts in SharePoint and monitor them on SQL Agent on SSMS
• Work with Windows Azure Reporting Services using Windows Azure Portal and SSMS
• Write applications in SSIS and WPF to access reports and access native server reports from SharePoint Site

I hope this book is appreciated as much as the earlier one.

New Data Visualization options in Report Builder 3.0

In my book 'Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2008' I dealt mostly with reports that can be authored using Report Buidler 2.0.

A complete chapter from the book on Report Builder 2.0 is freely available at the two following links:

Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2009 - Part 1

Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2009 - Part 2

Together with SQL Server 2008 R2 Nov-CTP Microsoft released a new Report Builder, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP Report Builder 3.0 which is available as a standalone download from this location.
It can be installed using either wizards or from the commandline. You could also choose to configure it to work with a report server in native mode, or with a report server running in integrated Sharepoint mode.

I took a first look at it installing in native mode to my SQL Server 2008 R2 NoV-CTP Hodentek3\Kumori. When I open the Report Builder 3's UI, I see a number of data visualization options that were not available in Report Builder 2.0.

Here is a screen shot of the UI with the new items. In addition to Charts and Gauges, there are several other interesting options.