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Reporting Services (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)
£1,350 Classroom (Manchester)
£995 Onsite (your office)
Please ask Online (your home)
£825
You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

You do not need any prior knowledge of SQL to attend this course (although you should have an understanding of tables and databases).

Course schedule

Here are our next few Reporting Services course dates:

Dates Times Venue Price (excl. VAT)
12-13 Dec 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
22-23 Jan 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
17-18 Feb 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
20-21 Mar 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
22-23 Apr 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
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Got 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

Reporting Services training course contents

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS to the cognoscenti) is the flagship Microsoft tool for producing printed reports (if you want to create dashboards for viewing information on screen, you might be better off using Power BI). 

On this two day course, you'll learn how to create and deploy reports in SSRS, including:

  • Creating data sources and data sets

  • Grouping data in tables (including controlling page headers)

  • Creating expressions, including conditional formatting and page headers/footers

  • Automatically exporting data to tabbed Excel workbooks

  • Using parameters (simple or dropdown) to filter data in reports

  • Creating additional report items such as indicators and gauges

  • Working with matrices and charts

Note that you don't need to know any SQL to attend this course, as SSRS contains an easy-to-use query designer letting you choose which tables/fields you want to show in your reports.

The contents of this course are as follows:

Introduction to SSRS

  • Visual Studio and SSDT
  • Solutions and projects
  • The Visual Studio environment

Designing a Simple Report

  • Authoring a report
  • Using report items
  • Selecting and formatting report items
  • Number formats

Data sources and datasets

  • Shared data sources
  • Shared versus embedded datasets
  • Using Query Designer

Tables

  • Structure of a table
  • Formatting tables
  • Inserting rows
  • Interactive sorting
  • Repeating page headers

Grouping tables

  • Using the grouping panes
  • Row and column groups
  • Displaying subtotals
  • Outlining

Expressions

  • Calculated fields
  • The ReportItems collection
  • Using built-in fields
  • Conditional formatting - expressions

Pages and printing

  • Page headers and footers
  • Pagination between groups
  • Header and footer expressions

Parameters

  • Using query parameters
  • Creating drop lists
  • Multi-value drop lists
  • Formatting using parameters

Indicators

  • Creating indicators
  • Changing the symbols displayed
  • Stopping indicators stretching

Gauges

  • Creating and formatting gauges
  • Gauge panels
  • Pointers, scales and ranges

Matrices

  • Areas of a matrix
  • Sorting and grouping matrices
  • Creating and formatting subtotals

Charts

  • The areas of a chart
  • Creating charts
  • Formatting charts

Data bars and sparklines

  • Need for a grouped row
  • Creating data bars
  • Creating sparklines

Lists

  • Creating and formatting lists
  • Grouping using lists
  • Using rectangles in lists

Subreports   if time

  • Creating a child report
  • Creating the main report
  • Creating and formatting subreports

Drill-through reports

  • Parent and child reports
  • Creating actions
  • Passing values to a child report

Maps   if time

  • ESRI shapefiles / SQL spatial data
  • Linking to datasets
  • Map layers
  • Center points and point layers

Deploying reports

  • Setting the target server
  • Deploying an entire project
  • Deploying single reports

The SSRS web portal

  • Browsing to the web portal
  • Viewing reports
  • Managing reports

Subscriptions   if time

  • How subscriptions work
  • Creating a new subscription
  • Managing subscriptions
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:

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

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:

"Well structured course and the trainer adapted the pace of learning to benefit my needs. I feel I have come away from the course with more knowledge than I expected to and feel confident I will be able to utilise my new skills going forward. Manual is great. Thank you."

Julie Chapman (Hereford Sixth Form College)

"A great trainer, who explained everything very clearly. He made sure all topics were covered and understood by everyone. Really enjoyed this course and will definitely be looking into attending more Wise Owl courses."

Cassandra Wan (St Mungos )

"Well rounded course, presented well."

Rob Cook (Live Nation (Music) UK Limited)

"I was very pleased with the course and pace of it, the small group I think helped as whilst we had differing levels of experience we were similarly matched. The trainer was friendly and helpful throughout. The resources sent out prior to the training session were also beneficial and the trainer referred back to it at relevant points, so we knew where to look when not on the course. I had already used the software previously but found I still learnt a lot from this course. I had some knowledge of the content but it had been self taught for the majority and as such I wanted to learn what the software could do, to support the work that I was already doing."

Adrian Hall (Changing Lives)

"An amazing trainer, made the session really engaging and personalised the course to my needs. Even though there was only me on the course, I was able to pay attention and really enjoyed the session."

Amy Adams (Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust)

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:

  1. A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
  2. 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.

Related Courses

You might like to consider these related courses:

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