SSRS Tutorial Overview

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

ssrs tutorial Overview

In this set of tutorials, we will be learning microsoft sql server 2008 reporting services. This set of tutorials, is designed for anyone with absolutely no experience in business intelligence SSRS or sql server reporting services. We will also walk through sql reporting services configuration, creating your first report, deploying, security etc.

The SSRS service provides a unique interface into Microsoft Visual Studio so that developers as well as SQL administrators can connect to SQL databases and use SSRS tools to format SQL reports in many complex ways. SSRS also provides a 'Report Builder' tool for less technical IT workers to format SQL reports of lesser complexity.

SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 (SSRS) is a feature included in the SQL Server 2008 product. We use SSRS to design, develop, test, and deploy reports. SSRS was originally slated to be released with SQL Server 2005 but it wound up being released a little bit ahead of SQL Server 2005. SSRS leverages the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) developer tool for all aspects of authoring and deploying reports. BIDS is included with SQL Server 2008.

In this tutorial we will step through a number of topics that you need to understand to successfully build a report. Our high level outline is as follows: