Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Reporting Services Step by Step

Part II. Developing Reports

The chapters in Part II teach you a variety of report development techniques that take advantage of the rich set of features available in Reporting Services. In Chapter 4, you learn how to use Report Designer in Business Intelligence Development Studio to build basic reports. In Chapter 5, you learn how to enhance reports by adding calculations and using expressions to change properties dynamically. Then, in Chapter 6, you build more advanced reports to support user interaction with online reports. In Chapter 7, you learn how to use the MDX query designer to retrieve Analysis Services data for the reporting environment. Later, in Chapter 8, you explore the many ways to communicate information visually by using charts ...