Jayaram Krishnaswamy - Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2012

Jayaram Krishnaswamy studied at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and Madras University in India and taught at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. He went to Japan on a Japanese Ministry of Education Research scholarship to complete his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Nagoya University. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Sydney University in Australia; a Government of India Senior Scientific Officer at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur; a visiting scientist at the Eindhoven Institute of Technology in Netherlands; a visiting professor of Physics at the Federal University in Brazil; an associate research scientist at a government laboratory in Sao Jose dos Campos in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and a visiting scientist at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada, before coming to USA in 1985. He has also taught and worked at the Colorado State University in Fort Collins and North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. He worked with Northrop Grumman Corporation on a number of projects related to high energy electron accelerators / free electron lasers. These projects were undertaken at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island and in the Physics Department at Princeton University. He has over 80 publications in refereed and non-refereed publications and 8 issued patents. He is fluent in Japanese and Portuguese and lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

He has been working in IT related fields since 1997. He was once a Microsoft Certified Trainer in Networking and a Siebel Certified developer. He has worked with several IT related companies, such as Butler International in their Siebel practice; and with several IBM subcontractors and smaller companies. Presently he is active in writing technical articles in the IT field to many online sites such as CodeProject.com, APSFree.com, DevShed.com, DevArticles.com, OfficeUsers.org, ASPAlliance.com, Egghead Caf, SSWUG.org, Packt Article Network, databasedev.co.uk, cimaware.com, and many others. Between 2006 and 2010 he wrote more than 400 articles mostly related to database and web-related technologies covering Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, ColdFusion, Sun, and other vendor products.

He has written four books all published by Packt related to Microsoft database and application development, namely, SQL Server Integration Services Using Visual Studio 2005 , Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 , Microsoft SQL Azure , Enterprise Application Development , and Microsoft Visual Studio Lightswitch Business Application Development . He regularly writes on his four blogs on Blogger http://Hodentek.blogspot.com, http://HodentekHelp.blogspot.com, http://HodentekMobile.blogspot.com, and http://HodentekMSSS.blogspot.com. He received the 2011 Microsoft Community Contributor award.

I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity to write the second edition of my book Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 . Dilip Venkatesh, the Senior Acquisition Editor, my early contact for this book was most helpful and without his guidance this book would not have been possible. I am most grateful for his advice.

I would like to thank Mary Nadar, the Acquisition Editor, for help with this book, in its early stages. I am obliged to Apeksha Chitnis, the Project Coordinator, for having monitoring the flow of correspondence successfully and for her timely reminders. I also would like to thank Lead Technical Editors Sharvari Tawde in the early stages, Azharuddin Sheikh for having stayed with this book to the end, and Chalini Victor. I would like to thank the Technical Editors Varun Pius Rodrigues, Mausam Kothari, and Lubna Shaikh for their excellent support and detailed editing and patience. I would also like to record the help of many others at Packt at different stages of production.

I sincerely thank the reviewers for their valuable time and effort. Satya Shyam K Jayanty, Maria Zakourdaev, Ritesh Shah (SQLHub.com), and Bihag Thacker (MsSQLBlog.com) have contributed enormously to the book. Their pointed questions and well directed advice have made portions of this book more readable and clear and I am most thankful to them. I particularly would like to thank Satya Shyam K Jayanty who meticulously went through the book and provided very valuable advice both technical and organizational.

I would like to thank my parents who would have shared my joy. I thank my brothers and sisters, and the whole hearted support of our Subbagiri family. I cannot sufficiently thank my wife, Michiko Fukumoto, my son, Krishna Jayaram, and his wife, Jannet Jayaram, for their continuous encouragement and their dog, Oliver, who sat by my side and gave me his company during the writing.

Last but not the least I would like to thank Microsoft Corporation for making available evaluation software without which this book would not exist. I am most indebted to the MSDN forums specially related to SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 and SharePoint 2010, their moderators and mentors from whom I have received unstinted support.

Satya Jayanty is a Subject Matter Expert (Technical and Data Architect and DBA) with more than 21 years of experience in the IT field that includes a wide range of industries such as the stock exchange, insurance, tele-communications, financial, insurance, retail, and manufacturing sectors among others. He has been a Microsoft Most Valueable Professional ( MVP ) (Architecture SQL Server) since the year 2006. He was a Director and Principal Architect at DBIA Solutions Limited.