Marlon Ribunal - SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints

This book would not have been possible without the support of, and inspiration from, my family. To Vicky, my loving and beautiful wife, thank you for the unconditional love and affection. I love you so much! To Lawrence and Angelo, my two sons, thank you for your unconditional love. I love you, guys!

I'd also like to thank my father, Mario Ribunal Sr., and my siblings here in the US and in the Philippines for their unwavering support to me and my family. And, to my mother, who will always have a special space in my heart, I hope I made you smile in heaven.

I would also like to thank the Estebat-Javier-Limos-Paredes-Garces Clan of Long Beach, California for their continued support.

I'd also like to acknowledge my high school alma mater, La Salette of Jones in Isabela, Philippines. Thank you for letting me experience the wonder of booting a computer with a floppy disk for the very first time way back when (not too long ago)!

Of course, I would like to say thanks to my SQL Family, Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), and the SQL Server Community in general. Thank you for inspiring me. Special thanks go to Donabel Santos (@sqlbelle), Edwin Sarmiento (@EdwinMSarmiento), Mark Tabladillo (@MarkTabNet), and Tom Roush (@GEEQL).

Basit A. Masood-Al-Farooq is an internationally known Lead SQL DBA, Trainer and Technical Author, with twelve years experience of the Microsoft technology stack. He is an accomplished development and production SQL Server DBA, with a proven record of delivering major projects on time and within budget. He is expert at evaluating client's needs against the capabilities of the SQL Server product set, with the objective of minimizing cost and maximizing function through making innovative use of advance capabilities. Basit has authored numerous SQL Server technical articles on various SQL Server topics, for different SQL Server community sites that include http://sqlmag.com/, www.mssqltips.com/, www.sqlservercentral.com/, www.sswug.org/, www.sql-server-performance.com/, and http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/. He has also developed and implemented many successful database infrastructure, data warehouse and business intelligence projects. He also has a good understanding of ITIL principals. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from London Metropolitan University, and industry standard certifications from Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, Brainbench, Prosoft, and APM, including MCITP Database Administrator 2008, MCITP Database Administrator 2005, MCDBA SQL Server 2000 and MCTS .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications.

He can be reached via twitter (@BasitAali), blog (http://basitaalishan.com), or via LinkedIn. His LinkedIn profile address is http://uk.linkedin.com/in/basitfarooq.

I have not worked on any other book but I regularly write technical articles on various SQL Server topics, for different SQL Server community sites such as http://sqlmag.com/, www.mssqltips.com/, www.sqlservercentral.com/, www.sswug.org/, www.sql-server-performance.com/, and http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/.

I would like to thank my wife Aniqa and my sons Saifaan and Rayyan for coping with my hectic work schedule.

Varinder Sandhu is an IT professional. He is a Microsoft-certified SQL Server Database Administrator and technology specialist in Microsoft .NET FrameworkApplication Development Foundation. He has a Master of Computer Application (MCA) degree from Sikkim Manipal University and a B Sc. in Computer Science from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He has around 6 years of IT experience with a contribution in all aspects of the software engineering process, from architecture and requirements definition, through design, estimating, coding, testing, and maintenance of software applications.