From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble Review
Building on SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Reporting Services can empower any organization to generate actionable information, manage it centrally, and deliver it via paper, Web, PDF, Excel spreadsheet, email, you name it. This package walks you through every task involved with using and managing Reporting Services, hands-on. It’ll get you rolling fast, whether you’re a report developer, an administrator, or “just” a business user.
One modular lesson at a time, Stacia Misner covers installing Reporting Services, developing basic and not-so-basic reports, organizing data, managing content and security, accessing and rendering reports, and more. There’s also a full chapter on setting up subscriptions, whereby users decide what information they need, and then get it “pushed” to them automatically. The accompanying CD-ROM contains all practice files, plus the entire book in Acrobat PDF format. Bill Camarda, from the December 2004 Read Only
From the Publisher
Teach yourself how to use the new, integrated reporting capabilities in SQL Server-one step at a time! This practical, hands-on guide expertly builds your expertise with the concepts and architecture of SQL Server Reporting Services-including Report Definition Language, Report Designer, Report Server, and the programming model. Work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises to learn how to author and modify reports, deploy and manage reports on a server, and author applications-all the core knowledge and techniques needed to build, view, and manage reports over internal, shared, or public networks.