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Software ==>	SSRS Reporting Services (99 exercises)
Topic ==>	Expressions (8 exercises)
Level ==>	Harder than average
Subject ==>	SSRS training

Use the lookup function in an SSRS report to retrieve related information from a different data source.

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file . Once you've done this:

Go into SQL Server Management Studio;
Open the SQL file you've just unzipped (you can press CTRL + O to do this); then
Execute this script.

This will generate the database that you'll need to use in order to do this exercise (note that the database and script are only to be used for exercises published on this website, and may not be reused or distributed in any form without the prior written permission of Wise Owl).

Create a report called For Kids Who Can't Read Good and add data sources which connect to the Movies and Books databases.

Create a dataset which selects the following fields from the Books database:

Use the Book and Author tables to select these fields.

Add a table to the report and assign fields so that it resembles the one shown below:

Create three empty columns ready to display data from a second dataset.

Create a new dataset which includes these fields from the Movies database:

You can get these three fields from the Film table.

Add a calculated field called ReleaseYear to the dataset which calculates the year in which each film was released.

Add expressions to the relevant columns of the table which use the Lookup function to return the Title and ReleaseYear of the film based on each book.