deployment and reports

Hi,

When I deploy a report i am assuming the report is deployed to the reporting service DB (ReportServer). Then when i try to view report in a browser I presume the following happens:

Navigate to http://localhost/Reports and click report you want to view

A web service call is made to retrieve report data from a DB eg Northwind

The data is the rendered based on the defined formatting in the RDL file and displayed in browser.

If this is correct does anyone known where the report is deployed to (DB or Web service) I cannot see the rdl files in any of these places and if I delete my project report viewing still works.

I know you can view all reports if you are in SQL management studio and go connect->reporting services but this is not a DB. Is this the web service and if so why cant i see files in IIS?

Thanks for replies

It's because they're not stored as files. When you deploy any files to the report server, they are stored in a table called Catalog and are serialized into an image column called Content.

Report Manager, Management Studio or whatever just connect to the web service and query it about which reports are stored in the database. The web service is basically the interface into the database.