Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2016 Level 2

Course Description

SkillDynamo’s Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2016 Level 2 course develops practical, role-relevant capability in building advanced, interactive, reusable, and maintainable SSRS 2016 reports with Report Designer. The course is structured for clear progression from core concepts to implementation and operational use.

The source-verified course duration is 16 Hours. It is divided into four detailed lessons whose combined duration exactly matches the full course duration. Each lesson includes demonstrations, hands-on practice, troubleshooting, and validation activities.

The content is independently written for SkillDynamo using the supplied course page as the title, duration, date, and topic-alignment reference. Learners finish with an applied scenario and a prioritized improvement plan.

What You Will Learn

• Review SSRS project structure, shared data sources, datasets, parameters, and report lifecycle
• Design advanced tablix, matrix, list, grouping, sorting, and nested data-region layouts
• Use expressions, calculated fields, formatting rules, and reusable report components
• Create drilldown, drillthrough, bookmarks, document maps, and interactive navigation
• Design charts, gauges, indicators, sparklines, and business-focused visual summaries
• Control pagination, rendering, headers, footers, and multi-format export behavior
• Use subreports, shared datasets, linked items, subscriptions, and caching appropriately
• Improve dataset, query, rendering, and report-execution performance

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2016 Level 2 course through instructor-led demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, evidence-based reviews, and a final improvement plan linked to practical workplace outcomes.