December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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Reporting Services Architecture
When referring to SSRS as a platform, we are actually talking about a cohesive set of development tools, configuration tools, web services, applications, and utilities, all working together to deliver enterprise-grade reporting.
In a nutshell, the platform includes the following components:
A single Windows service, listed in the Windows Service Control applet as SQL Server Reporting Services, which acts as a host for and provides centralized control of SSRS’s background processing engine, web services, and Report Manager web application. It also handles encryption and decryption of stored credentials and connection ...