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Lesson 3 - Data Sources

Types of DataSources in SSRS.

DataSource is the pointer to database objects, Connection string consists of data source which is the server name and initial catalog is the database name.There are two types of datasources in SSRS as mentioned below.

  1. Shared DataSource:
  • Shared datasource is the common datasource among all the reports in a project.
  • When we create a shared datasource in a project it can be used by all the reports in the project.
  • The primary usage of this datasource is, when there is a change in the database name , if we change the database name in the initial catalog then every report is connected to new database. 


    2 . Embedded DataSource:

  • Embedded datasource is the datasource which is specific to a particular report.
  • The main advantage of using this datasource is with change in server name only this report is affected and it doesn't show impact to the total project.


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