I am proud to announce that our Professional SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services book is finally in print and generally available. This 865 page book took about 14 months to write and was completed about six weeks ago. Paperback and electronic editions are available from Wrox.com, Amazon & other resellers.
My esteemed co-authors were Robert Bruckner from the SSRS product team, Grant Paisley, Thiago Silva and Ken Withee; who all did fantastic work.
Thanks go to Joe Salvatore, Chris Albrektson and Nigel Sammy who did a great job as a technical reviewers.
In addition to covering every significant capability of the new professional reporting platform and the integrated SharePoint experience; chapters are dedicated to new BI capabilities introduced in SQL Server 2012 including BISM semantic tabular models, PowerPivot for Excel 2012 and SharePoint 2012, and Power View visualizations.
Table of Contents:
FOREWORD xxxv
INTRODUCTION xxxvii
PART I: GETTING STARTED
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCING REPORTING SERVICES 3
CHAPTER 2: REPORTING SERVICES INSTALLATION AND ARCHITECTURE 23
CHAPTER 3: CONFIGURING SHAREPOINT INTEGRATION 69
PART II: REPORT DESIGN
CHAPTER 4: BASIC REPORT DESIGN 95
CHAPTER 5: REPORT LAYOUT AND FORMATTING 123
CHAPTER 6: DESIGNING DATA ACCESS 143
CHAPTER 7: ADVANCED REPORT DESIGN 189
CHAPTER 8: CHART REPORTS 229
PART III: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE REPORTING
CHAPTER 9: BI SEMANTIC MODELS 251
CHAPTER 10: REPORTING WITH ANALYSIS SERVICES 263
CHAPTER 11: OLAP REPORTING ADVANCED TECHNIQUES 295
PART IV: ENABLING USER REPORTING
CHAPTER 12: TABULAR MODELS 349
CHAPTER 13: VISUAL ANALYTICS WITH POWER VIEW 373
CHAPTER 14: REPORT BUILDER SOLUTION STRATEGIES 445
PART V: SOLUTION PATTERNS
CHAPTER 15: MANAGING REPORT PROJECTS 463
CHAPTER 16: REPORT SOLUTIONS, PATTERNS, AND RECIPES 483
PART VI: ADMINISTERING REPORTING SERVICES
CHAPTER 17: CONTENT MANAGEMENT 525
CHAPTER 18: INTEGRATING REPORTS WITH SHAREPOINT 559
CHAPTER 19: NATIVE MODE SERVER ADMINISTRATION 581
PART VII: REPORTING SERVICES CUSTOM PROGRAMMING
CHAPTER 20: INTEGRATING REPORTS INTO CUSTOM APPLICATIONS 619
CHAPTER 21: USING EMBEDDED AND REFERENCED CODE 681
CHAPTER 22: EXTENDING REPORTING SERVICES 697
PART VIII: APPENDIXES
APPENDIX A: T-SQL COMMAND SYNTAX REFERENCE 758
APPENDIX B: T-SQL SYSTEM VARIABLES AND FUNCTIONS 779
APPENDIX C: MDX REFERENCE 803
INDEX 829
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