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SSRS: A Complete Reporting Solution

 MS SQL SERVER REPORTING SERVICES: SSRS

This is a robust platform shipped by Microsoft Corp. which provides you with undivided facility to create, deploy and render on the go versatile and paginated reports directly from the Database of your choice. The database of your choice can be an Oracle Database or an SQL database or any other database for which a supporting driver is provided by the Database vendor.



Some of the best features Industry wise:

It supports small to large scale reporting requirements on the fly as per user specifications.

The rendered reports are so vivid and diversified in nature that it can be really presenting and at the same time highly meaningful.

Facilities provided by Microsoft Excel for graph generation from a dataset is immensely available.

Shared data-sources can be used with multiple reports for easy maintenance.

Datasets can be used from different databases in the same report not only from same DBMS technology but from cross platform DBMSs also.

Reports can be segregated folder wise.

 User Level Security is also available for report access.

Reports are published on the go directly on the SSRS application website shipped with SSRS software, from where it can be made available to use.

Reports can also be directly mailed as an alert to different recipients with report data as attachment or email content as per choice.

Data-driven mail alerts are also a great option to mail different alerts to different recipients based on user selected criteria.

Configuration setup takes hardly 15 minutes.

Architecture is two-tier that comes as shipped, can be made three-tier as per choice using OHS.

Reports can be rendered and called in ASP.NET applications using Report Viewer Control.

Reports can also be accessed programmatically using SOAP API provided by SSRS directly and data can be saved in different formats as desired.

Portal based interface for quick view and reports management.

Reports can be build using Report Builder tool provided by Microsoft. 


Available Formats



SQL Server 2019 celebrates SQL Server Reporting Services as a subsidiary tool to depict quality content and resourceful data in meaningful formats:

XML File with Report Data

CSV

Data Feed

PDF

Remote GDI+ file

HTML 4.0

MHTML (Web Archive)

Excel 2003

Excel

RPL Renderer

TIFF File

Word 203

Word 

 

In the next section, we will discuss how to setup SSRS on Windows Server in conjugation with MS SQL Server.

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