Chapter 8. Beyond Wow: Advanced Reporting

In this chapter, we explore some of the flashy features of Reporting Services. These are the features that get us techies excited. If you do not say "Wow!" after seeing at least one of these features in the reports created in this chapter, then we (the developers at Microsoft and I) are not doing our jobs. Just to clarify, the "Wow!" does not need to be said out loud. Simply thinking "Wow!" in your head counts just as much.

Getting you to say, or think, "Wow!" is not ultimately the goal of the Microsoft developers who created Reporting Services or the goal of this author as he writes this chapter. The developers who create games for Microsoft can be satisfied with eliciting a "Wow!" from their clientele ...

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