how to create/author a RDL

Question

i was looking for a guide/beginners doc on how to step by step create a RDL file for creating a SQL reporting server report.

I was unable to find a comprehensive one on msdn, though i found something similar on codeguru (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/reporting-services/ReportingServices.aspx) .. do we have something similar and in detail for me to get started.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Paggi

Answer 1

Hi Paggia,

There are many books on the market , a search on mspress returns 30 plus books there are many none MS press books that are equally as good

sample data bases  including SSRS samples can be found at
http://www.codeplex.com/SqlServerSamples

Ms e-learning can be found at
http://learning.microsoft.com/Manager/Catalog.aspx

Ms Virtual labs
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/cc164207.aspx

Ms Bi site
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/bi.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42666

it very much depends on how you learn

Oh and this forum gives many links to MVP links
Hope this is enough to get you started

Enjoy

Answer 2

Hi,

 

In addtion to Rorbert, the below link is the Reporting Services Tutorials. To use the samples Robert mentioned, you could refer to this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170246(SQL.90).aspx

 

Hope this helps.

Raymond