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Hands On Lab: Building Your First Multidimensional Report with SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services

Version: 1.0

Description

This Hands On Lab will show you how to expose Analysis Services data in your application using the Visual Studio 2010 ReportViewer control.

Overview

This lab will explore authoring a report based on an Analysis Services cube.

Objectives

The objectives of this exercise are to:

  • Create and configure a Reporting Services project
  • Create an Analysis Services shared data source
  • Create a parameterized dataset using the MDX Query Designer
  • Develop a table report
  • Configure indicators

System Requirements

You must have installed the following items to complete this lab:

Setup

All the requisites for this lab are verified using the Configuration Wizard. To make sure that everything is correctly configured, follow these steps.

Note:
To perform the setup steps you need to run the scripts in a command window with administrator privileges.

  1. Launch the Configuration Wizard for this lab by double-clicking the Dependencies.dep file located under the Source\Setup folder of this lab. Install any pre-requisites that are missing (rescanning if necessary) and complete the wizard.

Cleanup

  1. There is no need to cleanup if you intend to continue the sequence of labs in this training kit.
  2. To restore the original state of the AdventureWorksDW2008R2 SQL Server database and delete the Sales Analysis Analysis Services database, execute the Cleanup.cmd script located under the Setup folder in the Source folder of this lab.

Exercises

This Hands-On Lab comprises the following exercise:

  1. Authoring the Sales Performance Report

Estimated time to complete this lab: 30 minutes.

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