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Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
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SQL Server Reporting Services is the customizable reporting solution for report
designers and programmers. This hands-on guide will get you up to speed quickly
so you can design, deploy, manage, and even customize reporting solutions. You
can create powerful reports without programming knowledge and extend reporting
solutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET.
Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions,
and developing deployment strategies for interacting with various platforms,
this book prepares you to take full advantage of this revolutionary tool. Plus,
you'll learn how to extend practically every feature of Reporting Services by
implementing your own security architecture or adding custom data access.
What you will learn from this book
* Details of programming reports and report scripting
* Advanced report design, including drill-down reports, nested lists, drill-through,
links, and dynamic content
* High-level strategies for business and support systems
* Rendering reports using .NET code, .NET IO namespace classes, and URL rendering
deployment strategies to handle hardware, software, and platform considerations,
licensing issues, and scaling options
* How to design reports for mobile services
* Various tools used to define data sources and semantic metadata models
* How to use parameters and expressions to define creative report solutions
* Advanced object-oriented programming techniques, with examples in C# and VB
2005.
Who this book is for
This book is for report designers, developers, administrators, and business
professionals interested in learning the advanced functionality, report server
administration, and security issues of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
Wrox Professional guides are 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
Foreword I.
Foreword II.
Introduction.
Part One: Getting Started.
Chapter 1: What Can You Do with Reporting Services?
Chapter 2: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2005.
Chapter 3: Reporting Services Architecture.
Part Two: Report Design.
Chapter 4: Basic Report Design.
Chapter 5: Designing Data Access.
Chapter 6: Advanced Report Design.
Chapter 7: Report Solution Patterns and Recipes.
Part Three: Enabling End User Reporting with Report Builder.
Chapter 8: Reporting Services Report Models.
Chapter 9: Report Builder.
Part Four: Administering Reporting Services.
Chapter 10: Report Management.
Chapter 11: Report Server Administration.
Part Five: Reporting Services Integration and the Reporting Services Web Services.
Chapter 12: Integrating Reporting Services into Custom Applications.
Chapter 13: Extending Reporting Services.
Appendix A:Migrating Access Reports.
Appendix B: Reporting Services Object Model.
Appendix C: Transact SQL Command Syntax Reference.
Appendix D: Transact SQL System Variables and Functions.
Index.
About the Authors
Paul Turley is a senior consultant for Hitachi Consulting. He architects
database, reporting and business intelligence solutions for many prominent consulting
clients. In addition to Reporting Services, he has created reporting solutions
using Crystal Reports, Active Reports, and Access. Since 1988, he has managed
IT projects, designed and programmed applications using Visual Basic 3, 4, 5,
6, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and SQL Server. He obtained his MCSD certification in 1996
and other certifications include MCDBA, IT Project+, and Microsoft Solutions
Framework (MSF) Practitioner.
He designed and maintains www.Scout-Master.com, a web-based service that enables
Boy Scout units to manage their membership and advancement records online using
ASP.NET, SQL Server, and Reporting Services.
Paul authored Beginning Transact SQL for SQL Server 2000 and 2005. He has been
a contributing author on books and articles including Professional Access 2000
Programming, Beginning Access 2002 VBA, and SQL Server Data Warehousing with
Analysis Services, all from WROX Press.
Todd Bryant has been creating custom data-focused applications and reporting
solutions since the early eighties. He began using Microsoft technologies in
1998, and the love affair began. Todd has been contract programming, teaching,
and developing custom courseware ever since. He is currently working half-time
as a software architect for SoftWyre, a Little Rock, Arkansas, based software
development company as well as training half-time at Netdesk Corporation in
Seattle, where he concentrates on enterprise solutions, Com+ services, and object-oriented
programming using both VB.NET and C#. His certifications include the MCSD, MCSE,
MCDBA, and MCT certifications from Microsoft; the CNA certification from Novell;
and both CompTIAâ ™s A+ and CTT+.
James Counihan started teaching himself binary in the early 1970s. He
is now a Seattle-area consultant specializing in development on the .NET platform.
Dave DuVarney is a principal for Stateraâ ™s Seattle office.
He has broad technical knowledge stemming from his experiences as a software
developer, a certified public accountant, and a technology trainer. Dave has
been involved in multiple software development projects ranging from contract
management systems to human rights auditing. He is proficient in numerous development
languages as well as Microsoft business intelligence technologies. Most recently
he has been consulting and delivering on SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services,
Reporting Services, and Integration Services. Dave is the coauthor of Professional
SQL Server Reporting Services.
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