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SSRS Best Pracitice - 2


Shared Data Source:

As a best Practice we should use a Share data source in all our Reports as far as possible.

benifits of doing this are:

1. We can Move all our Reports from one environment to another with less efforts.

2. No Need to concern about handling so many Data sources for the Reports.

3. Shared Data source is easy to handle in the Reports, Just change the Database or server Name and all your Reports will pointing to the new Data.

4. Coding Standards also will take few efforts for the Data Source.

5. Less Confusion about the Source Data when using the Shared Data Source i.e from which data base my reports are fetching data? etc.

Happy Learning!
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