SSRS 2005 usage Short details - mini tutorial

Architecture

Reporting Services has a quite a few components that work together seamlessly to provide a complete reporting solution. The full Reporting Services architecture includes development tools, administration tools, and report viewers. There are a number of ways to get to Reporting Services programmatically, including URL, SOAP and WMI interfaces.

Figure 17-1 shows a simplified diagram of the main Reporting Services components that we'll be using in this chapter.

Figure 17-1: Report Server architecture

In this chapter you'll learn about these components:

• Report Server is the core engine that drives Reporting Services.
• Report Manager is a Web-based administrative interface for Reporting Services.
• Report Designer is a developer tool for building complex reports.
• Report Builder is a simplified end-user tool for building reports.
• The Report Server database stores report definitions. Reports themselves can make use of data from many different data sources.

Refer the below given link for mini tutorial of SSRS

http://www.accelebrate.com/sql_training/ssrs_2008_tutorial.htm

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