McGraw-Hill - Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (2009)01 | DELIVERING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 BRIAN LARSON Microsoft SQL Server 008 DELIVERING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE About the Author Brian Larson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Luther College in Decorah Iowa with degrees in physics and computer science. Brian has 23 years of experience in the computer industry and 19 years experience as a consultant creating custom database applications. He is currently the Chief of Technology for Superior Consulting Services in Minneapolis Minnesota a Microsoft Consulting Partner for Reporting Services. Brian is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer MCSD and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator MCDBA . Brian served as a member of the original Reporting Services development team as a consultant to Microsoft. In that role he contributed to the original code base of Reporting Services. Brian has presented at national conferences and events including the SQL Server Magazine Connections Conference the PASS Community Summit and the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference and has provided training and mentoring on Reporting Services across the country. He has been a contributor and columnist for SQL Server Magazine. In addition to this book Brian is the author of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RReporting Services also from McGraw-Hill. Brian and his wife Pam have been married for 23 years. Pam will tell you that their first date took place at the campus computer center. If that doesn t qualify someone to write a computer book then I don t know what does. Brian and Pam have two children Jessica and Corey. About the Technical Editor Robert M. Bruckner is a senior developer with the SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS product group at Microsoft. Prior to this role at Microsoft he researched designed and implemented database and business intelligence systems as a scientific researcher at Vienna University of Technology and as a system architect at T-Mobile Austria. Robert joined the Reporting Services development
