February 2009
Beginner to intermediate
400 pages
9h 59m
English
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Assemble an MDX query to retrieve data for a Reporting Services report
Employ report parameters to limit data returned from Analysis Services
Apply proper formatting and aggregation to data within a report
Reporting Services, Microsoft’s enterprise reporting solution, is distributed as part of the Microsoft SQL Server product suite along with Analysis Services. Because of the close affiliation between these products, many developers are first exposed to the MDX language during the development of reports.
Reporting Services reports provide an effective means of presenting Analysis Services data to business users. Although the tools provided make development of reports against ...