Chapter 19. Reporting Services
—Elsie Pan and Jeff Bolton
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services is a comprehensive server-based reporting solution that supports the full reporting life cycle—from creating and managing reports to securing and delivering reports for end users. In this chapter, we’ll examine each phase of that cycle as we walk through a number of real-world reporting scenarios. By the end of this chapter, you will have learned all the fundamentals needed—and more—to effectively take advantage of Reporting Services in SQL Server 2008.
In addition to SQL Server relational databases, Reporting Services supports the creation of reports against a wide variety of data sources, including Analysis Services databases, Oracle, and DB2. ...
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