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With Microsoft SQLServer 2008 Reporting Services you can quickly deliver relevantbusiness intelligence data wherever it's needed?across the entireenterprise, and through the entire reporting lifecycle. SQL Server2008 Reporting Services Unleashed gives you all the authoritativeinformation you'll need to make the most of Microsoft's mostpowerful reporting platform as a database professional, manager, oruser. In-depth coverage makes this book an ideal reference, and itsextensive set of practical examples help you address virtually anychallenge in deployment, configuration, administration, or reportbuilding.
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• Extensively expanded: contains far deeper reference information and many more practical examples
• Includes never-before-published insider techniques from top Reporting Services practitioners - including new co-author Amit Goyal, Microsoft's Reporting Services lead program manager
• Illuminates powerful new changes and features, including tablix, gauges, and SharePoint integration

Part I: Introduction to Reporting Services

1. Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
2. Reporting Services 2008 Architecture
3. Getting Started with Reporting Services Tools
4. What's New in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008
5. Reporting Services Deployment Scenarios
6. Installing Reporting Services

Part II: Report Authoring from Basic to Advanced

7. Report Server Project Wizard
8. Report Designer(s)
9. Report Definition Language
10. Expressions
11. Accessing Data
12. Report Parameters
13. Grouping, Sorting, Aggregating Data, and Working with Scope
14. Advanced Report Formatting
15. Report Navigation
16. Working with Multidimensional Data Sources
17. Ad Hoc Reporting

Part III Reporting Services Management

19. Managing Reports, Data Sources, and Models
20. Securing Report Server Items
21. Report Execution and Processing
22. Subscribing to Reports
23. SSRS Administration
24. RS Utility

Part IV: Reporting Services Customizations

25. Implementing Custom Embedded Functions
26. Creating and Calling a Custom Assembly from a Report
27. Using URL Access
28. Using Reporting Services Web Services
29. Extending Reporting Services

Part V: SharePoint Integration

30. Reporting Services Integration with SharePoint
31. SSRS 2008 SharePoint Integration Architecture
32. Installation of Reporting Services Integrated with SharePoint
33. SharePoint Mode Administration
34. Tools Support for SSRS Integrated with SharePoint
35. Viewing Reports in SharePoint
36. Managing Reports in SharePoint
37. Ad Hoc Reporting in SharePoint

Michael Lisin has been in the software industry for morethan 17 years, with 10 of those years working with Microsoft. Mostof his career, Michael has been consulting on SQL Server andbusiness intelligence solutions for Microsoft's enterprisecustomers. He has worked with SQL Server Reporting Services sincethe product's first pre-beta version in 2002 and has taughtReporting Services classes and presented topics related to SQLServer at various events. Michael earned his MBA at Texas A&MUniversity in 2006 and continues to be a dedicated scholar ofReporting Services. He is now working with business development forMicrosoft. Jim Joseph is an independent contractor with 10 years ofexperience developing custom software solutions in a variety ofindustries. He has worked with SQL Server Reporting Services sincethe first beta release in 2000. He earned his MBA from theUniversity of St. Thomas in 2002. He has worked in a number ofroles from developer to database administrator. Amit Goyal is a senior lead manager for the SQL ServerReporting Services team at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft,Amit was a director at Yahoo! and worked on development of thePanama search monetization platform. He has 14 years of industryexperience at high-tech companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo!,Oracle, and Broadbase Software.He earned his bachelor of sciencedegree from UIUC (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) andmaster's degree from Stanford University.