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Intended for both users and administrators, this guide walks through Reporting Services installation and each stage of the reporting life cycle. Misner and her team at Hitachi Consulting show how to create reports with advanced features, manage content and server components, and deliver reports in different formats. The CD-ROM contains sample files for the exercises and three bonus chapters on automation scripts.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Description
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.

From the Publisher
Microsoft Press has discovered that the CD originally shipped with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Step By Step is missing several files. New books are now shipping from our warehouse with complete CDs. However, if you have purchased a book with a faulty CD, you can download the complete set of files from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=36557 or order a replacement CD by calling us at 1-800-MSPRESS. We apologize for any inconvenience, but are confident you will find the book to be excellent in all other respects.

About the Author
Hitachi Consulting is Hitachi, Ltd.’s global business and IT consulting company. We serve Fortune 2000 companies across many industries throughout the United States. We work with you to understand your needs and to enable and implement key business strategies. We deliver practical solutions to generate demand, ensure supply, and help you manage your enterprise effectively. Hitachi Consulting was first to market in the authoring of Reporting Services courseware and continues to lead the market in Reporting Services implementations, specializing in custom reporting solutions and conversions. Our commitment to delivering measurable results is unparalleled, as is our dedication to transferring knowledge. Let us inspire your next success! Stacia Misner is a manager for Hitachi Consulting’s National Business Intelligence practice. Her career spans 20 years as an information technology professional, an educator, and a consultant. She has specialized in the development of business intelligence solutions and delivery of training on business intelligence technologies during the past five years. Ms. Misner has delivered reporting solutions in a variety of industries including retail, financial services, automotive, and telecommunications. Ms. Misner is the coauthor of Business Intelligence: Making Better Decisions Faster (Microsoft Press, 2002) and is a coauthor of Hitachi Consulting's FastTrack to Reporting Services course.

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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￯﾿ﾽll get you rolling fast, whether you￯﾿ﾽre a report developer, an administrator, or ￯﾿ﾽjust￯﾿ﾽ 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￯﾿ﾽs also a full chapter on setting up subscriptions, whereby users decide what information they need, and then get it ￯﾿ﾽpushed￯﾿ﾽ 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.

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