Reporting, SQL 2016 and ConfigMgr Matthew Teegarden @TheEmptyGarden System Administrator Lifetouch Garth Jones https://www.enhansoft.com/blog/auth or/garth @GarthMJ, Chief Arcitect Enhansoft

Matthew Teegarden Garth Jones @TheEmptyGarden @GarthMJ Bad Jokes MVP, MSCE, Author Less than a year.  20+ Years Dad Jokes and 80’s Music Streaming Tech, Whiskey

Where to Start? SQL Server 2016 Reports Tools Tips and Tricks

This Session will NOT talk about: Where to find Treasured data in ConfigMgr See session “Treasure Trove of Data: Learn Your ConfigMgr Database's Data” How to Create a SQL Query. See session “T-SQL - The Basics of Querying Data from ConfigMgr” Advanced Reporting topics RBA, Optimizing queries, etc.

Where to Start? SQL Server 2016 Reports Tools Tips and Tricks

SQL Server 2016 More! Mobile reporting Faster / caching Update Style to Corp style But….

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Reporting Tools SQL Server Management Studio Power BI Report Builder SQL Server Data Tools

SQL Server Management Studio Create your queries using SSMS Test performance Confirm results

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Power Bi What is it? Where do you get it? Who should use it? When should you use it?

Pros Cons Power BI – Pros and Cons Interaction Cached Results Some Pre-canned items Some books (mostly cloud) Free Cons You still need to know SQL Big Data Color coding data Cached Results

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Report Builder What is it? Where do you get it? Who should use it? When should you use it?

Report Builder – Pros and Cons Can be Downloaded from CM Reporting Point Good for simple edit to CM reports Small example within CM course Free Cons Not as many features as SSDT

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SQL Server Data Tools What is it? Where do you get it? Who should use it? When should you use it?

SQL Server Data Tools – Pros and Cons Can do everything! A Number of Books Free Cons Seems difficult

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Color Palette tools Why is Color important? What free tools exist? Web Master is your friend

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