| Microsoft Reporting Services is the newest component of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 that adds a server-based reporting solution to the Microsoft business intelligence framework. The goal of this book is to guide you through the installation of Reporting Services and through each stage of the reporting life cycle so that you can easily create, manage, and share reports in your organization. In support of this goal, step-by-step exercises are included to give you the opportunity to explore Reporting Services with confidence. When you complete these exercises, you’ll be ready to tackle real-world reporting challenges!
To help you learn the many features of Reporting Services, this book is organized into five parts. Part 1, “Getting Started with Reporting Services,” explains how the components of Reporting Services fully support the reporting life cycle, shows you how to install these components, and provides you with a hands-on introduction to the reporting life cycle. Part 2, “Authoring Reports,” starts by showing you to build simple reports, and then gradually introduces advanced techniques to teach you how to use Reporting Services features to satisfy a variety of reporting requirements. Part 3, “Managing the Report Server,” covers all of the activities that you need to perform when managing the reporting environment. Part 4, “Delivering Reports,” describes the many ways that you can use Reporting Services to provide reports to the user community. The companion CD-ROM contains bonus chapters in Part 5, “Programming Reporting Services.” These chapters introduce how to use Reporting Services as a development platform for custom applications that author, manage, or deliver reports. |