Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services and Mobile Reports

Chapter 3Reporting Services Installation and Architecture

WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• What's changed in SQL Server 2016?
• Installing a report server
• Building an enterprise deployment
• Using tools to manage the reporting life cycle
• Exploring report server architecture
• Leveraging reporting services extensions

To use the examples and work through the exercises in this book, you need a report server and administrative rights to access it. Unless you have a server set up for this purpose, I recommend that you install a local instance of SQL Server on a machine that you manage. Your learning machine can be on your local computer, a local virtual machine, or a virtual server hosted in a cloud service like Windows Azure. I recommend that you install the Developer Edition of SQL Server 2016 on Windows 8 Professional or higher, or Windows Server 2012 or higher.

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If you are just getting started or you are new to Reporting Services, some of the technical information in this chapter may not be relevant or necessary at this stage in your experience. To get up-and-running quickly, follow the steps in “Installing Reporting Services” section of this chapter and then follow the section titled “Installing the Reporting Services Samples, Exercises, and SQL Server Databases.” To use the chapter samples and exercises, you should install Reporting Services in native mode and install Analysis Services in multidimensional mode.

You need the SQL Server database engine and Reporting Services ...