Brian McDonald - Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services

Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services, Third Edition

Copyright 2012 by Brian McDonald, Shawn McGehee, and Rodney Landrum

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This book is dedicated to my beautiful wife and my bubbly best friend, Sherri, my two amazing children (Bailey and Kylie), my mother and father, and to everyone else who believed in me and supported me throughout the years.

Brian K. McDonald

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Shawn McGehee