SQL Server reporting Services is the customizable reporting solution for report designers and programmers. This hands-on guide will get you up to speed quickly so you can design, deploy, manage, and even customize reporting solutions. You can create powerful reports without programming knowledge and extend reporting solutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET. Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions, and developing deployment strategies for interacting with various platforms, this book prepares you to take full advantage of this revolutionary tool. Plus, you'll learn how to extend practically every feature of Reporting Services by implementing your own security architecture or adding custom data access. What you will learn from this book * Details of programming reports and report scripting * Advanced report design, including drill-down reports, nested lists, drill-through, links and dynamic content * High-level strategies for business and support systems * Rendering reports using .NET code, .NET 10 namespace classes, and URL rendering deployment strategies to handle hardware, software, and platform considerations, licensing issues, and scaling options * How to design reports for mobile services * Various tools used to define data sources and semantic metadata models * How to use parameters and expressions to define creative report solutions * Advanced object-oriented programming techniques, with examples in C# and VB 2005. Who this book is for This book is for report designers, developers, administrators, and business professionals interested in learning the advanced functionality, report,server administration, and security issues of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issue technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new Technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Intended for both beginning and experienced report designers, this guide explains how reports process and render data, and provides instructions for query creation, SQL server database navigation, end user reporting with Report Builder, administration, and integration with other applications. The more advanced chapters provide code examples written in C# and VB.NET Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

* Building on the first edition, the book explains reporting services architecture and business intelligence, shows how to conceptualize and design reports, and demonstrates how to captitalize on advanced report design and filtering techniques

* The authors categorize common report types and lead the reader through each design, discussing its purpose and the conditions under which it could be more efficient

* Detailed examples illustrate how to build and design report solutions, and show the hands-on deployment strategies that can be used for interacting with a variety of platforms

* Features discussions on upgrading versus installing the new product from scratch and planning and designing security