Authoring Reports

Enterprise reports are developed using SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio, introduced in Chapter 21. This integrated development environment is simply Visual Studio with business intelligence templates. The Report Server Project template provides many tools you can use to build feature-rich reports, but we can provide only a brief introduction of the possibilities in this chapter.

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For more hands-on tutorials covering the complete enterprise reporting life cycle, refer to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step by Stacia Misner and Hitachi Consulting, Microsoft Press, 2006. Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services by Paul Turley, Todd Bryan, James Counihan, George McKee, and Dave ...

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