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SQL Bits Goes West

SQL SERVER 2008 R2

REPORTING SERVICES

Andrew Fryer Evangelist

H T T P : / / B L O G S . T E C H N E T. C O M / A N D R E W@ D E E P F A T O N T W I T T E R

“Managed Self Service BI” delivered through:• Self Service Analysis Desktop Analytics • Self Service Reporting End User Reporting• SharePoint Integration Sharing, Collaboration

& Management

End User Empowerment

IT Management & Compliance

Empowering end users through “Managed Self-Service BI”

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Empowering IT Deploy managed, shared report components Publish and share visualizations Expose data sets for reuse Leverage existing investments in report

design Enabling end users New getting started experience Reuse existing components and data sets Design reports is as simple as “Grab & Go”

SELF SERVICE REPORT AUTHORING

SELF SERVICE REPORTING

REPORTS AS DATA FEEDS

Data regions in reports are standards-compliant data feeds

With PowerPivot, IW can consume all the operational, corporate reports for their analysis.

Reports as the primary data source for information worker analysis

IT provisioned. Secure, well-defined, optionally pre-cached

Build SSRS reports on top of Information Worker analysis models

LayoutTables, Matrices or any combination of it…

Parallel Groupings

Asymetrical columns/rows

Mix dynamics/static items

VisualizationsCharts, Pyramids, Pie, Donuts, Gauges, Maps, Sparklines, Data bars, Indicators...

ENHANCED DATA VISUALIZATION

BUILDING REPORTS

MANY TYPES OF VISUALIZATIONS

Stepped or Block grouping

Pivot

CustomSubtotals

Non-pivotcolumns

Nested controls Multi-Pivot

CustomHeaders

BUILDING REPORTS

MANY TYPES OF LAYOUTS

TABLIX VISUALIZATIONS: SPARKLINES AND DATA BARS

Sparklines“Data intense, word-sized graphics” – Tufte

Automatic axis alignment.

Can be converted into full charts to support additional small multiple scenarios.

Data BarsUsually depicts a single value in a cell.

Min and Max are automatically determined, but are configurable. Sparklines Data Bars

MAP FEATURES

Support for SQL SpatialIntegration with Virtual Earth tilesData GroupingEqual intervals, equal distribution, optimal, user-defined

Multiple Map layers

Colored maps based on auto or user defined scales

Cool looking Data Visualization: and soon…

Routes, pinpoint…

REPORT LAYOUT ENHANCEMENTS

Lookup functionsAggregate of aggregatesNew Data sources: Madison, SQL AzureReset page number on groupsExpression-based page breaksExcel worksheet tab namingSession variablesRenderer-dependent layoutBottom-to-top text rotation

ENHANCED REPORT VIEWER AND REPORT MANAGER EXPERIENCE

Refreshed viewer look and feelSmooth and fluid navigation experience (AJAX Report Viewer)Updated Report Manager. Workflow optimized (no need to preview report to access its properties or manage it)Updated Report Manager look and feel: More Office 14ish

AGGREGATES OF AGGREGATES

Expressions now support nesting of aggregate functionsExample: Average Monthly Sales

=Avg(Sum(Sales, "Month"), "Year")

Enables “visual totals” scenariosAggregates respect group filters

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Sales (filtered) Sales

EXCEL RENDERER WORKSHEET TAB NAMING

RESET PAGE NUMBER ON GROUP

• Reset page number for each new group instance.

• Get current page and total page count for each group, and overall

BOTTOM-TO-TOP TEXT ROTATION

New text orientation option provides more flexibility to your report layouts

RENDERER-BASED EXPRESSIONS

Control layout and write expressions that consider renderer formatExample, dynamically disable drillthrough expressions for non-interactive renderers and enable them for interactive ones

DYNAMIC PAGE BREAKS

Use expressions to determine what renderer is being usedDynamically disable/enable page breaks

Example, disable page breaks if exporting to Excel. Otherwise, enable them:

THE ROAD AHEAD

SQL Server 2008 available nowInnovation coming in H1 Calendar Year 2010SQL Server 2008 R2

SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse

Continue to deliver innovation 24-36 months from the release of SQL Server 2008Next major release of SQL Server

QUESTIONS

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Europe’s Premier Community SQL Server Conference

November 2009Tuesday 24th London – Storage and Query Optimisation - www.sqlpass.org.ukThursday 26th London – SQL Internals and MS BI – SQLServerFAQ.comThursday 26th London – Looking at newsgroups for Info – SQLServerFAQ.com

December 2009Thursday 3rd Online – PowerUp with SQL Server (see next slide)Tuesday 8th Cork – Query Optimisation – MTUG.ieWednesday 9th Dublin – Query Optimisation – IrishDev.comThursday 10th Leeds – Service Broker and Powershell – SQLServerFAQ.com Tuesday 15th Cambridge – Christmas Special down the pub – SQLSocial.comThursday 17th Manchester – SQL Server Internals – SQLServerFAQ.com

Up and coming events..

Time to Power Up with SQL Server within your organization! Who Should Attend:-Database administrators-Application developers/programmers-Database developers- IT Professionals responsible for SQL Server management Sign Up Today at http://tinyurl.com/PowerUpSQLServer

During the day's presentations by SQL Server experts, Greg Low, Javier Loria, and Niels Berglund, you'll get detailed information and time to ask your questions.

Three sessions, directly from your own computer:- Understanding Query Plan Caching in SQL Server- SQL Server High Availability- SQL Server Performance

IT’S PARTY TIME!

Coming up next in the Atrium:Time to relax and let your hair down.

RockbandTable footballAir Hockeyand more

Don’t forget speakers and sponsors have drinks vouchers