Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2016 Level 2 — Lesson 3: Subreports, Performance, Security, and Deployment

Learning Objectives

• Use subreports, shared datasets, linked items, subscriptions, and caching appropriately
• Improve dataset, query, rendering, and report-execution performance
• Configure folders, roles, permissions, deployment settings, and report-server operations

Detailed Topics

• Use subreports: Use subreports, shared datasets, linked items, subscriptions, and caching appropriately
• Improve dataset: Improve dataset, query, rendering, and report-execution performance
• Configure folders: Configure folders, roles, permissions, deployment settings, and report-server operations

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Diagnose a slow report and prepare a secured deployment package.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Subreports, Performance, Security, and Deployment in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.