SQL Server reporting service

Reporting service interview questions

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Explain the architecture of SQL Reporting service.
What is Reporting Services?
How does the report manager work in SSRS?
What are the Reporting Services components?
SQL Server Reporting Services vs Crystal Reports.

SQL Server reporting service - August 29, 2008 at 18:00 PM by Amit Satpute Explain the architecture of SQL Reporting service. Reporting Services runs as a middle-tier server, as part of your existing server architecture. SQL Server 2000 should be installed for the database server, and Internet Information Services 6.0 as a Web server. The report server engine takes in report definitions, locates the corresponding data, and produces the reports. Interaction with the engine can be done through the Web-based Report Manager, which also lets you manage refresh schedules and notifications. End users view the report in a Web browser, and can export it to PDF, XML, or Excel. SQL Server reporting service - March 10, 2009 at 19:00 PM by Rajmeet Ghai What is Reporting Services? SQL Server’s Reporting services offer a variety of interactive and printed reports managed by a web interface. Reporting services is a server based environment. How does the report manager work in SSRS? Report manager is a web application. In SSRS it is accessed by a URL. The interface of this Report manager depends on the permissions of the user. This means to access any functionality or perform any task, the user must be assigned a role. A user with a role of full permissions can entire all the features and menus of the report. To configure the report manager, a URL needs to be defined. What are the Reporting Services components? Reporting services components assist in development. These processing components include some tools that are used to create, manage and view reports. A report designer is used to create the reports. a report sever is used to execute and distribute reports. a report manager is used to manage the report server. SQL Server Reporting Services vs Crystal Reports. Crystal reports are processed by IIS while SSSR have a report server. Caching in Crystal reports is available through cache server. On the other hand, caching in SSSR is available for Report history snapshots. Crystal reports have standards and user defined field labels. SSSR allows only user defined field labels. <<Previous  Next>> Also read Define data, entity, domain and referential integrity. Answer - Data Integrity validates the data before getting stored in the columns of the table. SQL Server supports four type of data integrity..... Describe in brief exporting and importing utility? Answer - The Bulk Copy is a command utility that transfer SQL data to or from a data file. This utility mostly used to transfer huge data to SQL server from other database.... Define Distributed Query and Linked Server? Answer - Distributed Query is a query which can retrieve data from multiple data sources including distributed data........ Define temporary and extended stored procedure. Answer - Temporary Stored Procedure is stored in TempDB database. It is volatile and is deleted once connection gets terminated or server is restarted...... Define Primary and Unique key. Answer - The column or columns of the table whose value uniquely identifies each row in the table is called primary key. You can define column as primary key using primary key constraint while you create table.....