SQL Server 2008 R2 and the Reporting Services

Christophe CodoureyConsultant BI

Christophe.codourey@trivadis.com

Trivadis SARue Marterey 5 CH-1005 Lausanne

SQL Server Catalog

Report Server

Programatic Interface (Web Service)

WebUI

Delivery

Distribution(E-mail, File share,

Userdefined)

Security Services(NT, Passport,

Custom)

Security

Data Sources(SQL, SharePoint,

ODBC, Oracle, Custom)Report Processing

Browser Custom App

Format(HTML, Excel, PDF,

Word, …)

Data Retrieval Rendering

SQL Server 2008/R2 Reporting Services

SharePoint Atom Feed

Excel

Report Design Tools

BI Dev Studio Report Builder 3.0

RDL

SQL Server Catalog

Report Server

Programatic Interface (Web Service)

WebUI

Delivery

Distribution(E-mail, File share,

Userdefined)

Security Services(NT, Passport,

Custom)

Security

Data Sources(SQL, SharePoint,

ODBC, Oracle, Custom)Report Processing

Browser Custom App

(HTML, Excel, PDF, Word, …)

Data Retrieval Rendering

Agenda

SharePoint Atom Feed

Excel

Data extension supports SharePoint 2007/2010 sites• Visual Query Designer

SharePoint Data Source

<RSSharePointList xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <ListName>SuperLeagueTeams</ListName> <ViewFields> <FieldRef Name="ShortName" /> <FieldRef Name="Title" /> <FieldRef Name="Logo" /> </ViewFields></RSSharePointList>

Available in SQL Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate

SQL Azure and SQL Parallel Data Warehouse

T/SQL

SQL Azure

SQL Server Catalog

Report Server

Programatic Interface (Web Service)

WebUI

Delivery

Distribution(E-mail, File share,

Userdefined)

Security Services(NT, Passport,

Custom)

Security

Data Sources(SQL, SharePoint,

ODBC, Oracle, Custom)Report Processing

Browser Custom App

(HTML, Excel, PDF, Word, …)

Data Retrieval Rendering

Agenda

SharePoint Atom Feed

Excel

New text orientation option provides more flexibility to the report layout

New Writing Mode: Rotate270

More control over page breaks• Tablix, Rectangle and Group

Page Breaks and Naming of Excel Worksheets

=Globals!PageName & " Page: " & Globals!PageNumber & " of " &Globals!TotalPages

="Overall Page: " & Globals!OverallPageNumber & " of " & Globals!OverallTotalPages

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

Dynamic page breaks

Disable page breaks if exporting to Excel.

Control layout and write expressions that consider renderer format

Renderer-based expressions

Dynamically disable drill through expressions for non-interactive renderers and enable them for interactive ones

Nesting of aggregate functions is now supported• e.g. Average Month Sales

• =Avg(Sum(Quantity, "Quarter"), "Year")

Aggregates of Aggregates

AVG

SUM AVG

Datasets can be shared, stored, processed and cached externally from the report. Cache refresh plans work on cached reports or shared dataset query results

On first useVia a schedule

Shared (Cached) Data Sets

Values from one DataSet can be usedto get Value(s) fromanother DataSet• Lookup (1:1)

• MultiLookupGet multiple values,-> Param 1 is an array

• LookupSet (1:n)• E.g. Get all phone nr from

a selected customer

Lookup & Co

=Lookup(Fields!TeamA.Value ,Fields!Title.Value ,Fields!ShortName.Value ,"SuperLeagueTeam")

SQL Server Catalog

Report Server

Programatic Interface (Web Service)

WebUI

Delivery

Distribution(E-mail, File share,

Userdefined)

Security Services(NT, Passport,

Custom)

Security

Data Sources(SQL, SharePoint,

ODBC, Oracle, Custom)Report Processing

Browser Custom App

(HTML, Excel, PDF, Word, …)

Data Retrieval Rendering

Agenda

SharePoint Atom Feed

Excel

SSRS Data VisualizationSQL 2005

Chart

SQL 2005 SQL 2008

Chart Chart

Multiple areas

Multiple axes

Calculated series

Gauge

Bullet graph

SQL 2005 SQL 2008 SQL 2008 R2

Chart Chart Chart

Multiple areas Multiple areas

Multiple axes Multiple axes

Calculated series Calculated series

Gauge Gauge

Bullet graph Bullet graph

MapNEW!

SQL spatialNEW!

Bing™ supportNEW!

SparklineNEW!

Data BarNEW!

IndicatorNEW!

Sparklines

Sparklines“Data intense, word-sized graphics” – Invented by Edward TufteAutomatic axis alignment. All charts will have the same number of data points, regardless of source data.Convertable into full charts

Data BarsShow a single value in a cell.Min and Max are automatically determined, but are configurable.

Data Bars

Sparklines and Data Bars

Sparklines

= iif(Fields!HomeGame.Value = 1, "Blue", "LightBlue")

= Fields!TeamB.Value & " " & Fields!Result.Value

Convert to Full Chart

Sparklines are regularcharts with predifined property values

Some details

Some details (2)

Some details (3)

IconsShow status against a value, a goal or a trend

Own Icon Sets can becreated by Report Author

Color, icon and size can be changed based on data

Automatic support for comparing each member of a group against siblings

Indicators

Indicators

Stepped or Block grouping

PivotCustom

SubtotalsNon-pivotcolumns

Nested controls

Multi-Pivot

CustomHeaders

Authoring ReportsMany types of layouts

Map Integration

The product team currently plans on publishing links (Books On-Line/MSDN) to a number of map file providers when the product releases. However, we do not have a list that we can release at this time.

“Map” Data

Europe shape Files: http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/europe.htm

How to deal with Shape Files

SZ.SHP

http://www.sharpgis.net/page/shape2sql.aspx

Union on Shape Data

Works currently only

in Report Builder

Layers

Authoring ReportsMany types of visualizations

SQL Server Catalog

Report Server

Programatic Interface (Web Service)

WebUI

Delivery

Distribution(E-mail, File share,

Userdefined)

Security Services(NT, Passport,

Custom)

Security

Data Sources(SQL, SharePoint,

ODBC, Oracle, Custom)Report Processing

Browser Custom App

(HTML, Excel, PDF, Word, …)

Data Retrieval Rendering

Agenda

SharePoint Atom Feed

Excel

More intuitive UISearch SupportManage Report without rendering

New “Reports Portal” (Native Mode)

Grab-and-go reportingPublish report items to the catalog for re-useUsers can mix & mash different report items for their desired views

Atom Data Feed

ATOM Data Feed (do it yourself)string uri ="http://.../ReportServer?/Dir/MatchResult&rs:Command=Render &rs:Format=ATOM&rc:DataFeed=xAx0x1";

var client = new WebClient();client.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

Stream atomStream = client.OpenRead(uri);XDocument document = XDocument.Load(atomStream); var query = from feed in document.Descendants(XName.Get("properties", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata"))select new { TeamA = feed.Element(XName.Get("TeamA", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices")).Value, TeamB = feed.Element(XName.Get("TeamB", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices")).Value, };

ResultList.ItemsSource = query.ToList();

Feed-ID

ATOM Data Feed (do it yourself)<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><feed xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title type="text"></title> <id>uuid:0957b3c6-2d59-46b7-bcd8-ed0cfd5a48b0;id=2351</id> <updated>2010-03-29T06:44:25Z</updated> <entry> <id>uuid:0957b3c6-2d59-46b7-bcd8-ed0cfd5a48b0;id=2352</id> <title type="text"></title> <updated>2010-03-29T06:44:25Z</updated> <author /> <content type="application/xml"> <m:properties> <d:Round m:type="Edm.Int32">1</d:Round> <d:TeamA>FC Aarau </d:TeamA> <d:TeamB>Grasshopper Club Zürich </d:TeamB> <d:Result>01:00</d:Result> <d:Points m:type="Edm.Int32">3</d:Points> </m:properties> </content> </entry> <entry> <id>uuid:0957b3c6-2d59-46b7-bcd8-ed0cfd5a48b0;id=2353</id> ...

Additional data sources, detail improvements for report authoring and data distribution

SharePoint Lists, SQL AzurePage breaks, text rotation, info of render format, aggregates of aggregatesShared datasetsAtom data feed

New features in the area of better data visualizationData BarsSparklinesIndicators

High flexibility for displaying Spatial DataShape FilesBing Maps

It’s not a revolution but the next evolution levelRelease 3.0 ;-)

Conclusion

Thank you for your Attention!For more Information please contact

Christophe CodoureyConsultant BI

Christophe.Codourey@trivadis.com

Trivadis SARue Marterey 5 CH-1005 Lausanne