Pro SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

by Rodney Landrum and Walter J. Voytek II

Book Overview

The book was written in parallel with a migration project, moving some 200 professional healthcare reports from various reporting architectures to SQL Server Reporting Services, and so is steeped in the day-to-day challenges, discoveries, and successes involved in delivering a successful reporting solution with this technology. In this book, you will find step-by-step guides, best practices, and real code examples that cover all of the common Reporting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590594983
• ISBN13: 9781590594988
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good information

This book has been well written. Concise, but to-the-point. Coverage on Share point portal and Microsoft CRM is the most comprehensive comparing all the other SRS books in the market. I would recommend you buy this book as well as Wrox to be complete.

Easy to follow

I began this book with limited Reporting Services experience, not really knowing what to expect. What I found in every chapter was that the authors really took the time to explain the nuances of this technology that can only be understood from working with it in the real-world and not on a sample database with simple reports. I also learned much more about basic and advanced queries that really helped me out with parameters and stored procedures. I would definitely recommend this book for everyone new to reporting services and those who would like to get answers to detailed reporting scenarios.

The most clearly written guide to SRS available

Before this book I had no idea of the power available (for free!) from SQL Reporting Services. Rodney and Jim lay out a clear and concise learning path that helped our organization utilize the full potention of our database solution. I would recommend this book to any organization or individual who wants to get that extra mile from their data. The resources and examples made available in this book allow SRS to be utilized in a matter of hours with very little SQL knowledge.

Practical, authoratative.

Way back in the days when Microsoft Access was the latest thing in databases (and the earth was flat, and it was three miles to school, uphill both directions) it included quite a nice report generating package. Then we all moved to higher performance data bases, and we lost that functionality unless we bought a separate package like Crystal Reports. Now Microsoft has given us that functionality back and in an expanded manner that incorporates a lot of web presentation capability. This book is on the capabilities of the reporting system now built into SQL Server. If you're familiar with other graphically based reporting systems, or if you've worked in a .NET environment, you should be able to read this book in an afternoon and begin doing reports. After your first few reports you'll find that you want to go back to check on fancier capabilities, but you'll have the basics down. The nice thing about this book is that it was written while the authors were in the process of converting some 200 reports to actually use the software. That way you find out how it really works as opposed to the way the manuals say. Good job.

Step by step end-user guide

This is a clear and concise step-by-step guide to the end-user side of the SQL Server reporting services. It's well written and has numerous (maybe too many) screenshots. The walkthroughs are explained in an easy-to-read and follow step by step manner. There is some C# code and SQL that describe, for example, how to integrate the reporting engine into a .NET application. I recommend this book for anyone looking at developing with SQL Server Reports. It's definitely worth the look.