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We limit our courses to no more than 6 people per class.
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We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:
Delegates use Remote Desktop to connect to our machines, so our trainers can see everyone's screens at all time.
We arrange (without charge) a half-hour pre-course check for each online delegate before courses, to ensure that they everyone will be able to join the course seamlessly when it begins.
As well as providing a PDF of the manual and exercises for each online course delegate we will (again without charge) also post this out to each person a few days before if required.
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What other people have said about our SSRS training
Here are some comments we've received about our SSRS + training. You can see all of our 468 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.
"An excellent tutor, who gave a vivid understanding of how report builder works. He would make sure each and every one of us understood the topic before moving onto the next one. He structured his sessions in a way that it wasn't stressful, which made sure I had enough time to grasp what was being taught."
Joseph Philip
Torus62 Ltd
"I enjoyed the interactive nature of the course, as personally, I find I learn best by actually carrying out the exercises, rather than just being shown. I also liked the repetition of the tasks, as this helped me learn the principles."
Tom Tuck
Macfarlanes LLP
"A great trainer, really engaging and made even the complex topics simple to understand."
Rob Mason
Richer Sounds
"Trainer was really engaging, knew his stuff and was helpful in guiding us to utilising SSRS effectively. He seemed to really enjoy teaching us and we could tell. Well delivered course and great content, example database to use. The trainer slightly adapted his delivery based on what he believed we would need and he was right."
Nathan Vickery
TVS Supply Chain Solutions
"The course content was excellent and easy to follow, led by a very personable trainer who knew his stuff!"
Hayden Bryon
Derby and Burton Hospitals NHS FT
"I cannot fault the course or trainer. It was the best professional training I've ever received."
Justin Cowley
Derby Homes Ltd
About our SSRS training
Have you got an off-the-shelf package which contains some standard reports, but you're finding they don't show what you need to see? Maybe it's time to learn how to create reports in SQL Server Reporting Services!
Basic reports on views and stored procedures, and other advanced topics
if yo're a glutton for punishment you can combine these two courses together and sit on our intensive three-day fast-track SSRS course.
Here's what you'll learn on the two-day introductory course:
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Tables
Linking to data sources, creating datasets and displaying the resulting rows in formatted tables in your reports.
Grouping data
Learning to create group headers and footers, as well as ensuring titles remain at the top of each page and being able to expand and collapse topics.
Expressions
Creating additional columns in reports using functions like SWITCH, and using expressions to conditionally format parts of a report.
Pages and printing
Displaying page headers and footers, and learning to customise print settings for a report.
Parameters
Making a report return different results according to the values of parameters that you type in (such as start/end dates), and creating dropdown parameters.
Indicators and gauges
Displaying traffic lights or smiley faces to show how good a particular score is, or a linear or radial gauge for even more gimmickiness!
Matrices
Displaying data in a two-dimensional grid, similar to a pivot table in Excel.
Charts
Learning how to show charts in an SSRS report, including (if time allows) spark lines and data bars.
Subreports
Creating a subreport to show for each item on a main report, and using an action to enable drill down in a report.
Lists
Using a list to display tables, charts and matrices for each row in a main table.
Maps
If time allows, creating maps and linking them to data tables to show different pie charts at different locations for different postcodes.
Deployment
Copying your work onto your corporate server, and using the SSRS web portal to view reports.
The two-day advanced course includes the following topics:
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Expressions
A revision of expressions, followed by an explanation of what scope means and how to use it.
Variables
Creating report-level and group-level variables.
Embedded code
Creating and referencing custom functions within a report.
Views
Creating views on SQL and referencing them in reports.
Stored procedures
Using stored procedures as a basis for reports, as well as creating them in SQL.
Parameters
A refresher of parameters in reports, followed by how to use them with stored procedures (including dropdown and multivalue parameters using stored procedures).
Report navigation
Using document maps and bookmarks to make it easier to navigate in a report.
Dynamic reports
How to vary the content and structure of a report depending on options chosen by a user.
You can see even more details about what our SSRS courses will cover here.
You don't need to learn SQL to attend our SSRS course, but it's virtually inevitable that you will at some point need to learn how to combine data from different database tables using the SQL querying language.
In an ideal world, we'd suggest attending courses in the following order:
Learn how to create stored procedures and use other advanced programming techniques, giving you more power to select exactly the right data for your reports.
However, you definitely shouldn't book an advanced SQL course until a) you're sure you'll need to learn this and b) your trainer on the introduction course has confirmed that you'll enjoy it!
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How can I contact you with any questions?▼
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Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone!
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Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours.
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Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help!
Do you offer SSRS consultancy too?▼
Rather than learn Reporting Services, you could commission Wise Owl to create your reports (which will almost inevitably involve writing SQL too):
Get specific details about our
SQL Server Reporting Services consultancy, or more general information about how our
consultancy works.
Do you have any SSRS videos?▼
We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn SSRS:
Follow these tutorials to learn how to create reports in SSRS - an alternative to attending our two-day Introduction to Reporting Services classroom course. The tutorials were created in SSRS 2012, but work for any version of SSRS from 2008 R2 through to 2017.
Some online training videos on more advanced Reporting Services topics, such as custom assemblies, variables and dynamic matrices. These topics are based on those in our advanced SSRS course.
Start to learn how to use Report Builder 2016 using these tutorials (or Report Builder 3.0 for that matter - the two versions are sufficiently similar).
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Do you ever blog about SSRS?▼
Click on the link below to see some of our blogs on Reporting Services:
