Book Description
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
- SQL Server Reporting Services enables you to create a wide variety of reports
- This guide helps you customize reports for specific high-level needs and also to resolve design problems
- Covers recipes for grouped reports, charts, composite reports, dashboards, forms and labels, and interactive reports
- Also addresses localization, data sorting and filtering, handling dynamic data sources, and more
- Companion Web site provides samples of all the design solutions presented in the book
The SQL Server Reporting Services Cookbook brings together great report designs that have been field-tested by the experts
From the Back Cover
Step-by-step instructions show you how to create expert reports
Have you mastered the “how-tos” of Reporting Services? Can you confidently design simple reports—but now you need help with meeting the demands of more complex and advanced types of reports? If so, this is the ideal resource for you. Packed with proven design practices, this book serves as a collection of recipes for solving design problems so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel with each challenge you face. Organized by specific types of reports, the book covers grouped reports, charts, composite reports, dashboards, forms and labels, interactive reports, and more. Step-by-step instructions allow you to implement these best practices immediately so that you can solve your own design hurdles quickly.
SQL Server Reporting Services Recipes:
- Reviews basic report design concepts and components
- Covers localization, data sorting and filtering, handling dynamic data sources, and more
- Presents design solutions that can work with any release of SQL Server Reporting Services, including specific recipes for 2008 R2
- Shows how to aggregate semi-additive measures in a report
- Features a companion web site that provides finished report examples and data you need to design each recipe in the book
About the Author
Paul Turley is a business intelligence solution architect and manager for Hitachi Consulting. He is a Microsoft MVP and Certified Trainer.?He designs solutions and teaches classes on SQL Server technologies to companies around the world. Paul is the author of several books, including Professional SQL Server Reporting Services (2000/2005/2008).
Robert M. Bruckner is a technical lead with the Microsoft SQL Server product team. His core area of responsibility is the development of the report processing engine of Reporting Services. Robert frequently shares Reporting Services tips on his popular blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/robertbruckner.
Book Details
- Paperback: 648 pages
- Publisher: Wrox (April 5, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470563117
- ISBN-13: 978-0470563113
