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Software ==>	SSRS Reporting Services (99 exercises)
Topic ==>	Variables (3 exercises)
Level ==>	Harder than average
Subject ==>	SSRS training

Create one report and one group variable to show percent of totals

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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).

The aim of this exercise is to produce a report showing data like this (the formatting doesn't have to be as neat!):

For each director you see a list of their films, showing the Oscar nominations for each film, the % of the total Oscar nominations for this director that this makes up and the % of the total Oscar nominations for the entire report that this makes up.

Some thoughts to help you are shown below.

A good place to start is to create a simple report: