Microsoft® SQL Server® Reporting Services Recipes: for Designing Expert Reports

PREFACE

With rapidly increasing data volumes in every organization, the real challenge today is presenting data efficiently in a format that is easy to digest. The Reporting Services platform provides a lot of flexibility and an extensible architecture, which can help you adapt and extend the out-of-the-box experience if needed and implement solutions that fit your specific needs.

If you are looking for examples of interactive reports that you probably never imagined you could accomplish with Reporting Services reports, I recommend you attend the BI Power Hour session at big conferences such as Tech Ed, BI Conference, or SQL PASS. The BI Power Hour session is about demonstrating, in perhaps unusual and fun ways, the power of business intelligence tools. For the most recent conference seasons I built demos for the Reporting Services part of the BI Power Hour that included a multi-player Sea Battle report game (included in this book), and an artificial intelligence Sales Strategy/Risk Assessment reporting game, which will be published to my blog soon.

Some people say I know a lot about available Reporting Services report features. Probably because I implemented many of those, I'm using Reporting Services every day, and I have been answering questions and sharing my insights and advice for many years in various Microsoft internal discussion groups, private early adopter newsgroups, public Reporting Services newsgroups, as well as MSDN forums. Anyone good with a search engine can find ...