1. Christian Nordbakk Objectware AS
Reporting Services 2008
Christian Nordbakk
Objectware AS

2. Agenda Service Architecture Changes
Performance & Scalability Enhancements
Designing and Managing Reports with SSRS 2008
Upgrade Paths and Version Interoperability
Questions

3. Service Architecture Changes

4. SSRS 2005 Service Architecture
Two Separate Services
Windows
Unattended operations
Web
On demand operations
IIS
WebService
SOAP
URL Access
Report Processing
Report Models
Extensibility
Web Platform Components
Windows Service
Scheduling & Delivery
Database Maintenance
WMI
WMI Provider
Report Builder 1.0
Report Designer
SharePoint v3
Management Studio
Configuration Tool
3rd Party Applications
ReportingServices Databases
SharePoint v3 Databases
Configuration Files
Report Manager

5. SSRS 2008 Service Architecture
Single service
No IIS dependency
IIS is replace by native SQL Server components
SQL OS
SQL CLR
SQL Networking Interface
Windows Service
Scheduling & Delivery
Report Processing
Database Maintenance
Extensibility
WMI
WMI Provider
Report Builder 1.0
Report Designer
Report Builder 2.0
SharePoint v3
Configuration Tool
3rd Party Applications
ReportingServices Databases
SharePoint v3 Databases
Configuration Files
SOAP
URL Access
Report Models
Report Manager
Platform
ASP.NET
App Domain Management
Memory Management
Service Network Interface
Service Plaform
Authentication
Management Studio

6. Performance and Scalability Enhancements

7. Performance and Scalability Enhancements
On demand processing engine
Rendering Object Model changed
Report items are calculated on demand
Reports are not memory bound
Only the current page is rendered
Does not require the entire dataset to be loaded in memory (if supported by the data source)
Server infrastructure for process memory monitoring
Dynamic, self-managing with memory pressure
Reduces throughput in memory pressure situations
Administrators can define min and max targets for memory consumtion
File system cache
Used to adapt to memory pressure
Used when processing receives memory events from server

8. Report Design and Management

9. Upgrade Paths and Version Interoperability
Usage Scenario
Support Statement
RS 2005 RDL, RS 2000 RDL
Can publish directly to 2008 Server using Report Manager or SOAP API
2005 RDL will be preserved (not upgraded)
Report Designer (2000)
Not supported - cannot deploy reports to a 2008 server
Report Builder 2005 (in 2005 and 2008)
Authors 2005 RDLs
Can deploy reports to a 2008 Server
Report Designer (2005)
Can deploy reports to 2008 Server
Report Designer (2008)
Will upgrade 2000 and 2005 RDLs to 2008
Authors 2008 RDLs
Deploy to 2008 server only
Report Builder 2008 (Stand alone)
VS 2005 Viewer and VS 2008 Viewer
Can view 2008 server report
2008 RDLs are not supported in local mode
VS 2005 and VS 2008 RDLC Designer
Authors SQL 2005 RDLs
Does not support 2008 RDLs

10. Questions?