Hello,
I have recently had a new to me SQL Server upgraded from 2014 to 2016, was running only SSDE, SSIS, and SSAS Tabular, now I have had an SSAS MD instance created as well as had SSRS installed and turned on for the first time. We currently have an Azure Gateway that hosts our on premise SSAS Tab cubes, and access the cubes data source in Power BI Services and have built a number of Dashboard and Reports with that method and format.
Once SSRS was installed and running, I was given a Web URL to the our SSRS Instance. I went through some security and access issues that have been resolved. So I'm seeing SSRS for the first time, and as I poke around, I get the impression that it's basically used to show case a completed report. I don't see any reporting type tools anywhere.
Am I to download/install another tool (Report Builder?) to use on my PC in concert with the SSRS Web link in order to build Dashboards or reports in SSRS so it can host them?
Am I to use Visual Studio to connect to SSRS to design/create the report there, and then someone deploy it and bring the report into SSRS that way? Is that that the way most folks use it?
As far as advise, guidance and direction, my original idea, as we have a lot of complex reports written in freehand SQL that pull from a Teradata data warehouse that go into an Excel file and emailed/share-drive/SharePoint, I thought, I could take that SQL code and place into a SSRS report and source the data warehouse, bring that report output into the SSRS world instead, and from there, use Power BI to read that report, and use the Power BI Services as the main central report/dashboard repository, and this would be good use of having SSRS (and Report Builder?) to get away from freehand SQL, Excel and eMail. I'm open to best practice suggestions that best utilize my current systems and tools.
Thanks,
jpquinn
