Learn to extract value from your data using Report Builder 3
Our Report Build 3 training course is a comprehensive introduction to creating useful reports on varied datasets using Microsoft Report Builder 3.0.
Report Builder 3 is a tool designed for data analysts who need to create and publish engaging business reporting solutions built upon SQL Server Reporting Services, who do not necessarily wish to use Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) - which is itself based on Visual Studio.
A Report Builder report can only be created when the appropriate data is available, so the course also includes accessing data using Transact SQL statements, as well as other available tools.
During the course you will gain valuable hands-on experience delivering commercial-quality report solutions, led by an expert SQL Server instructor.
By the end of this course, you will have learnt:
- Introduction to Report Builder
- Connecting to Data
- Retrieving Data
- Designing Reports
- Manipulating Data Sets
- Enhancing Basic Reports
- Saving, Sharing and Printing Reports
Who should attend
The course is designed for experienced Excel, Access and other Relational Database users wanting to create reports for use with Microsoft Reporting Services without using BIDS.
Prerequisites
Delegates should ideally have a good degree of experience manipulating and presenting data within Microsoft Excel and / or Microsoft Access. Practical knowledge of SQL would be useful too. Other equivalent Relational Database experience (such as Oracle, MySQL) should also be sufficient.
On-site
If you would like to find out about custom / on-site Report Builder 3 training for any size of team, please get in touch – we would be glad to help build a course that meets your learning requirements.
We can take into account your existing technical skills, project requirements and timeframes, and specific topics of interest to tailor the most relevant and focussed course for you.
This can be particularly useful if you need to learn just the new features and Best Practices with Reoprt Builder 3 if you're coming from an earlier version, or need to include extra topics to help with prerequisite skills.
Report Builder 3 Training Course
Introduction to Report Builder 3
- Getting to know Report Builder
- Overview of tools and functions
Connecting to Data
- Types of Data Sources
- Shared Data Sources
- Report-specific Data Sources
- Data Source credentials
Retrieving Data
- Data Sets
- Query Designer
- Stored Procedures
Designing Reports
- Report and page properties
- Headers and Footers
- Data regions
- Matrices
- Lists
- Charts
- Gauges
- Maps
- Other Report Items
- Text boxes
- Sub Reports
- Formatting Report items
Manipulating Data Sets
- Sorting Data
- Grouping Data
- Using parameters with your Data
- Creating and using parameters in your Data
- Setting default values for parameters
- Creating parameter lists
- Calculations
- Filters
Enhancing Basic Reports
- Report item visibility
- Interactive sorting
- Expressions
- Display Report information and parameters
- Values
- Highlighting Exceptions in Data
- To stripe Data rows
- Document maps
Saving, Sharing and Printing Reports
- Saving local Reports
- Sharing Reports
- - to a Report Server
- - to a SharePoint site
- Viewing, printing and exporting Reports from a Report Server or SharePoint
- Creating Report subscriptions
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