How To Create Simple SSRS Report

Tools required for SSRS report

1. Visual Studio with SQL Server Data Tool.
2. SQL Server.

The steps given below are required to create SSRS report.

Open Visual Studio => File = > Project.

Select Reporting Services = > Report Server Project = > Set Location & Project Name, followed by clicking OK button. 

Select Solution Explorer

The folders will be available there.

1. Shared Data Sources
   The purpose of Shared Data Sources is that it allows us to use same data source for all the reports within the project, which includes configuration details (For e.g SQL connection string). The Data Source contains multiple Datasets.

• Shared Datasets
  The purpose of Shared Datasets is that it allows us to use the same dataset for all reports within the project.

• Reports
  Where we can add our report file.

Hence, first we will add one Shared Data Source.

Right click on Share Data Source => Add New Data Source.

The Window given below will be opened, followed by renaming Data Source name (e.g SharedDSource).

Click Edit button and the Window given below will open. Select Server name and the database name. Now, click Test connection button. The successful message popup given below will be displayed.

Now, click OK button.

If you will check the solution DSources.rds, the file will be added in Shared Data Source folder.

Now, we are done with all configuration related part. Now we will move to actual reporting part.

Right click on Reports folder => Add New Report

The Window given below will open. Now, don’t change anything and click Next button. If you find the default SharedDSource, it needs to be selected. If you have not added Shared Data Source, then you need to add New Data Source for the specific report.

Click Query Builder button

After Click Query Builder button, the Window given below will open. Now, click Edit as Text option.

In the Window given below, you will get two options for the retrieval of your data, where one is Text and second is Stored Procedure.

Text:- In Text, you need to add your select query.

Stored Procedure:- In Text, you need to add your procedure.

Now, I am using stored procedure because all the stuff and complexity can be written in stored procedure.

Now click “!” symbol. The Window given below will open. Currently, I am using procedure, so in my procedure; there is one parameter @EmpID, which is available. Now, I am passing null value for the time being. Just click Pass Null check box, select and then click OK button.  

The output given below will be displayed. Now, click OK button.

Click Next button.

Continue with Tabular and click Next button.

In this Window, you need to select available fields and add to Display Fields content by clicking Details button.

Now, click Next button.

Click Finish button.

The report given below will be displayed.

There are options, which are available; which has one design; where you can modify your report as per your requirement and another one is Preview, where you can see your report preview.

The final output is given below.

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