Download a Free Chapter Chapter 2 Report Authoring: Designing Efficient Queries Please login to download. Buy the Book About the Book ISBN: 1590594231 Publisher: Apress LP Publication Date: 2004 Edition: 1st Binding: Paperback Number of Pages: 320

SQL Server Reporting Services is the long-awaited reporting technology from Microsoft, providing the means to design, author, render and deploy business reports to users, customers and employees, via the web or the company intranet. The reporting engine is built in to the SQL Server 2005 database (and provided as a free add-on with SQL Server 2000) and the report manager is integrated with Visual Studio 2003, providing an effective and familiar environment for all SQL Server and .NET developers.

The authors have extensive experience with SQL Server and, specifically, with the production of professional reports in the medical industry, which is subject to rigorous HIPAA regulations and strict security. As a result, this book provides an in-depth and highly practical examination of this technology, giving the reader with the knowledge they need to be able to build interactive, versatile reports, using many types of data sources, and to deploy them efficiently and securely.