Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services [electronic resource] /
McDonald, Brian.author.
McGehee, Shawn.author.
Landrum, Rodney.author.
Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services opens the door to delivering customizable, web-enabled reports across your business at reasonable cost. Reporting Services is Microsoft’s enterprise-level reporting platform. It is included with many editions of SQL Server, and is something you’ll want to take advantage of if you’re running SQL Server as your database engine. Reporting Services provides a full set of tools with which to create and deploy reports. Create interactive reports for business users. Define reporting models from which business users can generate their own ad hoc reports. Pull data from relational databases, from XML, and from other sources. Present that data to users in tabular and graphical forms, and more. Reporting Services experts Brian McDonald, Rodney Landrum, and Shawn McGehee show how to do all this and much more in this third edition of their longstanding book on the topic. Provides best practices for using Reporting Services Covers the very latest in new features for SQL Server 2012 Your key to delivering business intelligence across the enterprise.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewers; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Who This Book Is For; Prerequisites; Downloading the Code; Contacting the Authors; Chapter 1: Introducing the Reporting Services Architecture; Understanding the Benefits of SSRS; SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2012 Reporting Services Enhancements; Report Builder/Data Modeler; SSRS 2012 Integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint; Tablix Report Properties; Enhanced Charting and Report Item Visualizations; Enhanced Performance and Memory Management
Embeddable SSRS ControlsHTML Text Formatting; Microsoft Word Rendering; Report Parts; Lookup Functions; Shared Datasets; SSRS and Business Intelligence; Business Intelligence Development Studio and SQL Server Data Tools; SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS); SSRS Architecture; SSRS Databases; The SSRS Report Server; SSRS Web Service Interface; Authentication Layer; The Report Processor; Data Processing; Report Rendering; Scheduling and Delivery; Client Applications; Report Manager; Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT); Command-Line Utilities
Report BuilderCustom Clients; Installing and Configuring; Deploying SSRS Securely; Summary; Chapter 2: Report Authoring: Designing Efficient Queries; Introducing the Sample Relational Database; Introducing the Schema Design; Knowing Your Data: A Quick Trick with a Small Procedure; Introducing Query Design Basics; Creating a Simple Query Graphically; Creating an Advanced Query; Testing Performance with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS); Optimizing Performance: Dividing the Load; Using a Parameterized Stored Procedure; Using ISNULL to Evaluate the Parameters; Query Performance anh Indexs
Column and Table AliasingTesting the Procedure; Summary; Chapter 3: Introduction to Reporting Services Design with SQL Server Data Tools; Exploring the Elements of BIDS; Setting Up a Basic IDE; Understanding Report Definition Language (RDL); Adding a Report; Setting Up Data Sources and Datasets; Creating a Data Source; Creating a Dataset; Creating Other Data Sources; Configuring Parameters; Setting up Filters; Expressions; Summary; Chapter 4: Laying Out a Report; Setting Up Pagination; Using Report Objects; Implementing a List; Implementing a Textbox; Implementing a Table
Implementing a RectangleImplementing a Matrix; Summary; Chapter 5: Implementing Dashboard-Style Report Objects; Understanding the Chart Data Region; Implementing an Image; Implementing a Gauge; Implementing a Map; Implementing a Data Bar; Implementing a Sparkline; Implementing an Indicator; Summary; Chapter 6: Building Reports; Creating a Report with the Report Wizard; Building Reports from Scratch; Formatting the Output; Adding Subtotals; Adding Interactivity; Document Mapping; Visibility; Interactive Sorting; Hyperlink Actions; Adding a Bookmark Link; Adding a URL Link
Building the URL Link with a Report Parameter
Includes index.
Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services opens the door to delivering customizable, web-enabled reports across your business at reasonable cost. Reporting Services is Microsoft’s enterprise-level reporting platform. It is included with many editions of SQL Server, and is something you’ll want to take advantage of if you’re running SQL Server as your database engine. Reporting Services provides a full set of tools with which to create and deploy reports. Create interactive reports for business users. Define reporting models from which business users can generate their own ad hoc reports. Pull data from relational databases, from XML, and from other sources. Present that data to users in tabular and graphical forms, and more. Reporting Services experts Brian McDonald, Rodney Landrum, and Shawn McGehee show how to do all this and much more in this third edition of their longstanding book on the topic. Provides best practices for using Reporting Services Covers the very latest in new features for SQL Server 2012 Your key to delivering business intelligence across the enterprise.
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