What is an SQL Server Reporting Services and what are its uses?

Problem: What is an SQL Server Reporting Services and what are its uses?

Solution: Reporting Services

SQL Server Reporting Services are services that comes with a standard install of SQL Server which comes as add on in the install. To develop a SSRS report you may have to download SSDT or BIDS tools for creating a report.

SSRS helps to create, deploy, and manage mobile and paginated Reporting Services reports on premises with the range of ready-to-use tools and services that SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

With Reporting Services, you can create interactive, tabular, graphical, or free-form reports from relational, multidimensional, or XML-based data sources. You can publish reports, schedule report processing, or access reports on-demand. Reporting Services also enables you to create ad hoc reports based on predefined models, and to interactively explore data within the model. You can select from a variety of viewing formats, export reports to other applications, and subscribe to published reports. The reports that you create can be viewed over a Web-based connection or as part of a Microsoft Windows application or SharePoint site. Reporting Services provides the key to your business data.

Example:

In the example, I would like to show we can locate if there is a reporting services installed in the SQL Server.

In the services type you can see the Report Server is installed on the Instance of the SQL Server.