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Advanced SSRS Training Course

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,525

Classroom (Manchester)
£1,150

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£995

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

The ideal preparation for this course is to attend our two-day Reporting Services course. We will accept other delegates, but you must have a good understanding of how to create reports in SSRS. Delegates must also know some SQL. This course is taught using SQL Server 2016, although the version isn't particularly important.

Course schedule

We don't have any dates scheduled for this course. We may consider adding dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have a handful of like-minded people in your organisation, you could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Advanced SSRS training course contents

If you can already create reports using either Report Builder or Reporting Services, we'd like to show you what else SSRS can do! This two-day advanced course will show you how to create and use variables; why and how you should base your reports on views and stored procedures; and how to use bookmarks, document maps and dynamic reports. If you're getting a group of people up to speed on SSRS from scratch, combining this and our two-day Introduction to SSRS course together makes for a nice three-day onsite course.

The contents of this course are as follows:

Revision of grouping

Creating grouped tables
Fixing page headers
Collapsing and expanding

Revision of expressions

Calculated fields
Using the expression builder
Conditional formatting

Advanced expressions

Understanding scope
Using RowNumber
Running totals

Variables

How variables work
Report variables
Group variables

Embedding code

Setting code for a report
Calling functions in expressions
Better ways to write code

Using SQL views

Why views are a good idea
Designing views
Scripting views
Using views in reports

Revision of parameters

Configuring parameters
Referencing parameters
Dealing with no rows
Default and null values
Dropdown parameters

Stored procedures in SSRS

Pros and cons of stored procedures
Server Explorer vs SSMS
Creating and editing procedures
Using for reports

Stored procedure parameters

Creating report parameters
Refreshing fields
Default and null values

Dropdowns with procedures

The stored procedures needed
Cascading dropdowns
Replacing SELECT A VALUE

Multivalue parameter procedures

Splitting the choices made in SQL
Displaying the chosen data
Restricting the number of choices

Improving report navigation

Document maps
Using bookmarks
Setting tooltips

Dynamic reports

Dynamic datasets
Dynamic grouping
Dynamic matrices

Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
551 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

Proper restaurant lunch included

And some benefits specific to online training:

Courseware manual posted to you in advance
Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"The trainer was very knowledgeable and the pace of the course was adjusted to ensure that everyone understood the exercises. A very enjoyable course."

Karen Hammond (STMicroelectronics (R&D) Ltd)

"Our trainer was very engaging and worked the often tricky format of an online classroom, very well. Plenty of interaction with attendees kept things interesting and avoided 'lecturing' type issues I've encountered with other training courses in the past. Course content felt relevant and applicable to my work and I learnt a lot!"

Jake Harrington (University of Lincoln)

"I found the content really useful. Each topic was covered thoroughly and the pace was perfect to allow me to feel fully confident before moving on"

Sophie Smith (Hyde Central Services Ltd)

"Trainer was great! Very patient with all of us and very knowledgeable in helping us to understand. Amazing communication skills!"

Muhtaseeb Syed (Department for Education)

"Great course and a great trainer, only wish there'd been an extra day."

Neil Rutherford (Halton Borough Council)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed. This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

familiarise yourself with the set-up;
meet your trainer; and
get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

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