Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building reporting solutions for the enterprise.

Teach yourself the fundamentals of SQL Server Reporting Services - one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to build flexible and powerful solutions that support the reporting needs of your organization.

Discover how to:

• Install and configure Reporting Services
• Author, manage, and access reports
• Create attractive, information-rich reports with Report Designer
• Calculate values, organize information, and manipulate report data
• Build, deploy, and maintain a report model
• Render and distribute reports in various formats
• Implement role-based security to restrict access to information
• Explore more advanced report design techniques
• Programatically customize any stage of the reporting lifecycle