Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting ServicesSQL Server Reporting Services makes reporting faster and easier than ever. This hands-on guide will show you how to harness the full power of Reporting Services to create reporting and business intelligence solutions that meet your company's needs. It walks you step-by-step through the fundamentals of designing the most effective reports by following careful planning considerations.The authors progress from beginning to advanced report design and filtering techniques, showing you the conditions where reports could be more efficient. They also explore holistic business intelligence solutions, comprehensive OLAP/Analysis Services reporting, and complete production-deployment scenarios.You'll learn how to write custom expressions and program functions to meet specific reporting needs. This will help you design, build, and deploy reports with capabilities far greater than any other reporting tools you may have used in the past. The techniques covered in the book will also enable you to take reporting further than you have before and provide your users with real business intelligence.What you will learn from this bookUsing reports to visualize important business-decision metricsBuilding the presentation layer for an enterprise business intelligence solutionReporting from OLAP cubes and relational database systemsEnabling information workers to easily create their own self-service reportsReal-world report design patterns and recipesDesigning and deploying reports for enterprise portals and dashboards, including SharePoint technologiesAdvanced object-oriented programming techniques for extending and adding functionality to Reporting ServicesWho this book is forThis book is for report designers, developers, administrators, and business professionals interested in learning the advanced functionality, reporting, server administration, and security issues of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services.Wrox Professional guidesare planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.