Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (2793)

Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
This module introduces the role that Reporting Services plays in an organization's reporting life cycle, the key features offered by Reporting Services, and the components that make up the Reporting Services architecture.
Lessons
Overview of SQL Server Reporting Services
Installing Reporting Services
Reporting Services Tools

Module 2: Authoring Basic Reports
This module introduces the fundamentals of report authoring, including configuring data sources and data sets, creating tabular reports, summarizing data, and applying basic formatting.
Lessons
Creating a Basic Table Report
Formatting Report Pages
Calculating Values

Module 3: Enhancing Basic Reports
This module introduces navigational controls and some additional types of data regions, and discusses how to use them to enhance a basic report.
Lessons
Interactive Navigation
Displaying Data

Module 4: Manipulating Data Sets
This module explores data sets to a greater depth, including the use of alternative data sources and interacting with a data set through the use of parameters. Students learn how to dynamically modify the data set underlying a data region by allowing parameters to be sent to the underlying query. They also learn to use best practices to implement static and dynamic parameter lists when interacting with queries and stored procedures.
Lessons
Defining Report Data
Using Parameters and Filters
Using Parameter Lists

Module 5: Using Report Models
This module describes how to create a report model so that business users can create their own reports without using the full Report Designer development environment. Students also learn how to use Report Builder to create a report from a report model.
Lessons
Creating Report Models
Using Report Builder

Module 6: Publishing and Executing Reports
This module explains the various options you can use to publish reports to the report server and execute them.
Lessons
Publishing Reports
Executing Reports
Creating Cached Instances
Creating Snapshots and Report History

Module 7: Using Subscriptions to Distribute Reports
This module describes how to implement subscriptions so that you can distribute reports either automatically by e-mail or by publishing reports to a shared folder.
Lessons
Introduction to Report Subscriptions
Creating Report Subscriptions
Managing Report Subscriptions

Module 8: Administering Reporting Services
This module discusses how to administer the Reporting Services server, how to monitor and optimize the performance of the report server, how to maintain the Reporting Services databases, and how to keep the system secure.
Lessons
Server Administration
Performance and Reliability Monitoring
Administering Report Server Databases
Security Administration

Module 9: Programming Reporting Services
This module explains how to query Reporting Services information programmatically and how to automate report management tasks. Students also learn how to render reports without relying on Report Manager, and how you can extend the feature set of a report server by creating custom code.
Lessons
Querying for Server Information Using a Web Service
Automating Report Management
Rendering Reports
Creating Custom Code