Tutorials (Report Builder 3.0)

Use the following Report Builder tutorials to learn how to create basic reports.

Prerequisites for Tutorials (Report Builder 3.0)

To use these tutorials, you must have read-only access to a SQL Server 2008 R2 database and permissions to access a SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services report server.

For help with these prerequisites, contact your report server administrator.

Alternative Ways of Getting a Data Connection (Report Builder 3.0)

Most of these tutorials use embedded data sources. If you have access to shared data sources you can use them instead. This topic provides the steps for using shared data sources.

Tutorial: Creating a Basic Table Report (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to create your first report. This tutorial shows you how to work with Report Builder to create a data source connection, define a simple query, build a layout to contain your data, format your report, and add grouping and totals.

Tutorial: Creating a Matrix Report (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to add and configure a matrix. You will use the Table or Matrix Wizard to create the report data source, dataset, and layout, and then enhance the matrix within the Design view of Report Builder.

Tutorial: Creating a Free-Form Report (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to create a free-form report from scratch. This report resembles a newsletter.

Tutorial: Formatting Text (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn some of the many ways you can format text in your reports.

Tutorial: Adding a Column Chart to Your Report (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to add a column chart with a moving average to a report.

Tutorial: Adding a Pie Chart to Your Report (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to add a pie chart to a report.

Tutorial: Adding a Bar Chart to Your Report (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to add a bar chart to a report.

Tutorial: Adding a Sparkline to Your Report (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to create a matrix and then add a set of sparkline charts to the matrix.

Tutorial: Adding a KPI to Your Report (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to add a key performance indicator (KPI) to a report.

Tutorial: Creating a Map Report (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to add a map to a report.

Tutorial: Adding a Parameter to Your Report (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to customize the appearance and content of a report by using parameters.

Tutorial: Creating Drillthrough and Main Reports (Report Builder 3.0)

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to create reports for a drillthrough scenario based on an Analysis Services cube. You will create the main report and enable it for drillthrough and the report that is the target of the drillthrough action.

Tutorial: Introducing Expressions

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to use expressions to concatenate, calculate, and lookup field values and show them a report. You will also learn how to conditionally display different images and indicator states using expressions.