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Video: Pt. 1 - An Overview of Creating High Quality Reports Using Excel and SSIS

  • ·Skill level: 400 (Intermediate - Advanced)
  • ·Run Time: 16:33
  • ·Instructor: Scott Whigham

Description:

Periodically, we all get requests to create reports - it's a daily event for some developers and admins. A lot of times, the preferred format is Microsoft Excel. Did you know that you can create high quality (good looking) reports directly in SSIS? We're talking about reports that have pictures/logos, custom font schemes, colors, etc - high quality reports!

Highlights from this video:
  • An overview of the process that you must go through to produce reports using Excel
  • Previewing a complex report generated with SSIS
  • When to use SSIS to build reports as opposed to using SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services)
and much more



NOTE: This video and the remaining videos in this section require knowledge of:
  • Visual Basic .NET
  • Microsoft Excel 2003, Excel 2007, Excel XP
  • A Basic Understanding of COM Interop
  • Working Knowledge of the .NET Framework
  • How to Build Data Flow Tasks
  • How to Create and Assign Values to SSIS variables
  • Creating Basic SSIS packages

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Scott Whigham

Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott's full bio can be found here)


NOTE: This video is part of our SQL Server 2005 Integration Services course.
This video is from Chapter 6: Scripting and Using .NET Assemblies in SSIS

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