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Lesson 1: Create a sample subscriber database

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In this Reporting Services tutorial lesson, you create a small "subscriber" database to store subscription data for your data-driven subscription. When the subscription is processed, the report server retrieves this data and uses it to customize report output. For example, the rows of data include specific order numbers to use for filters and what file format generated reports are in when they're created.

This lesson assumes you're using SQL Server Management Studio to create a SQL Server database.

Create a sample subscriber database

  1. Start Management Studio, and open a connection to an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine.

  2. Right-click on Databases, select New Database....

  3. In the New Database dialog box, in Database Name, type Subscribers.

  4. Select OK.

  5. Select the New Query button on the toolbar.

  6. Copy the following Transact-SQL statements into the empty query:

    Use Subscribers  
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[OrderInfo] (  
    [SubscriptionID] [int] NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY ,  
    [Order] [nvarchar] (20) NOT NULL,  
    [FileType] [bit],  
    [Format] [nvarchar] (20) NOT NULL ,  
) ON [PRIMARY]  
GO  

INSERT INTO [dbo].[OrderInfo] (SubscriptionID, [Order], FileType, Format)   
VALUES ('1', 'so43659', '1', 'IMAGE')  
INSERT INTO [dbo].[OrderInfo] (SubscriptionID, [Order], FileType, Format)   
VALUES ('2', 'so43664', '1', 'MHTML')  
INSERT INTO [dbo].[OrderInfo] (SubscriptionID, [Order], FileType, Format)   
VALUES ('3', 'so43668', '1', 'PDF')  
INSERT INTO [dbo].[OrderInfo] (SubscriptionID, [Order], FileType, Format)   
VALUES ('4', 'so71949', '1', 'Excel')  
GO

  7. Select ! Execute on the toolbar.

  8. Use a SELECT statement to verify that you have three rows of data. For example: select * from OrderInfo

Next step

  • You successfully created the subscription data that drives report distribution and vary the report output for each subscriber.
  • Next, you modify the data source properties of the report to use stored credentials.
  • You also modify the report design to include a parameter that the subscription uses with the subscriber data. Lesson 2: Modify the report data source properties.

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