Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Recipes: for Designing Expert Reports

by Paul Turley and Robert M. Bruckner
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Publish Date: April 01, 2010
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Overview

Learn to design more effective and sophisticated business reports

While most users of SQL Server Reporting Services are now comfortable designing and building simple reports, business today demands increasingly complex reporting. In this book, top Reporting Services design experts have contributed step-by-step recipes for creating various types of reports.

Written by well-known SQL Server Reporting Services experts, this book gives you the tools to meet your clients' needs

Coverage includes:

* Business Reporting Paradigms
* Basic Report Design Concepts
* Using Report Builder.
* Report Design Essentials
* Tabular and Matrix Reports
* Expressions and Custom Code
* Formatting Report Data
* Columnar and Grouped Reports
* Bi Dashboards and Elements
* Synchronizing Groups, Charts, and Sparklines
* Chart and Gauge Reports
* Creating a Personal Report Card
* Creating a Multi-Series Multi-Y Axis Chart
* Interactive Reporting
* Integrated Reporting Applications
* Offline Reporting Using The Report Viewer Control
* Creating a Calendar Report
* Creating Mailing Labels
* Barcodes
* Excel Worksheet Naming and Page Naming
* External Image Sources
* Language Localization
* Creating a Checkbox List To Show Existing Records
* Using a Checkbox List To Select and Deselect Records
* Using The Map Wizard
* Filtering and Parameterization
* Multiple Criterion Report Filtering
* Using Multi-Value Parameters with a Stored Procedure
* Using Multi-Value Parameters with a Subscription Report
* Creating Custom Sorting Reports
* Filtering User-Specific Report Data
* Custom and Dynamic Data Sources
* Using a Web Service As a Data Source
* Reporting On Sharepoint List Data
* Dynamics Ax Report Wizard
* and More!

The SQL Server Reporting Services Cookbook brings together great report designs that have been field-tested by the experts |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

Author Information

Paul Turley

Paul Turley (Vancouver, WA) is a Manager of Specialized Services for Hitachi Consulting Education Services. Paul manages the Business Intelligence training team and teaches classes for companies throughout the world on Microsoft SQL Server technologies. He works with companies to architect and build BI and reporting solutions. He has been developing business database solutions since 1991 for companies like Microsoft, Disney, Nike, and Hewlett - Packard. He has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1996 and holds several industry certifications, including MCTS and MCITP for BI, MCSD, MCDBA, MSF Practitioner, and IT Project+.
Paul has authored and co - authored several books and courses on database, business intelligence, and application development technologies. He is the lead courseware developer for the Hitachi Consulting courses: SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Solutions and SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Solutions. Books include the prior edition of this book, the 2008, 2005 and 2000 editions of Professional SQL Server Reporting Services , Beginning SQL Server 2005 Administration , Beginning Access 2002 VBA , Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services , and Professional Access 2000 Programming -- all from Wrox. He is also a contributing author for SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Step by Step from Microsoft Press.

Robert M. Bruckner

No bio available for Robert M. Bruckner.

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