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Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services |  | Authors: Paul Turley, Todd Bryant, James Counihan, Dave DuVarney
Publisher: Wrox
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 722
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 0764584979
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585
EAN: 9780764584978
ASIN: 0764584979
Publication Date: March 6, 2006
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From the Back Cover: SQL Server reporting Services is the customizable reporting solution for report designers and programmers. This hands-on guide will get you up to speed quickly so you can design, deploy, manage, and even customize reporting solutions. You can create powerful reports without programming knowledge and extend reporting solutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET. Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions, and developing deployment strategies for interacting with various platforms, this book prepares you to take full advantage of this revolutionary tool. Plus, you'll learn how to extend practically every feature of Reporting Services by implementing your own security architecture or adding custom data access.
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 Good for developers May 12, 2009
D. Dollahite (Connecticut)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a developer that has moved over from using Crystal Reports (and Enterprise v10) for 5+ years to SSRS for our new web app. We did that not only for cost (SSRS is included with the SQL Server licenses we were buying anyway and Crystal costs buku bucks), but also because we moved our product's web UI to ASP.NET 3.5, and it turns out that (as of May 2008) SAP/Business Objects has yet to release an ASP.NET 3.5-compatible SDK and the timeline is "maybe end of Q2". I'd rather have a product in hand that works than hold up development on maybe's and if's. If you're still evaluating the SSRS versus Crystal decision, I think the general consensus that SSRS is "80-90% there" is fairly accurate. But SSRS 2008 also narrows that gap.
SSRS is dramatically different in its approach to report writing than Crystal. For example, in Crystal you have defined "groups" on the page correlating to the report groups you have set up (very similar to MS Access reports). In SSRS, you have an object container (usually a table) that groups by the fields you define and then you put your objects into that object. Not better or worse... just different. This book does a good job of explaining things like that. It is also good about explaining using code in SSRS, like ability to create VB code libraries for use within reports.
I found this book to be very helpful in both outlining the basic differences as well as provide details on the nitty gritty. It's not 100% of the info you'll ever need. Frankly, I have both this and the Microsoft Press SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services book as well, and between them I can usually figure out what I need. But I also have to go and search the web for answers to specific formatting issues or resolution of "quirks". And I can't say that I've read it cover to cover. It is very well laid out along the lines of reading just what you need to read for what you're working on. If you don't care about programming report management tools, then just skip that chapter. If all you care about is management, skip the report design sections. But all-in-all I find it well laid out, clear, and if it didn't 100% explain something at least gave me enough to know where to start looking for extra detail.
If you're just a report designer, and not a programmer or DBA (I happen to be the rare exception of being all three), then you might struggle with with this book. But then again, you'll probably struggle with SSRS in general if you're only a report designer and not a coder. It's very "code-oriented". Crystal is much more report designer-friendly. But that code is also what I believe will propel SSRS to crush Crystal in the future. It provides a lot of flexibility not found in Crystal.
As a side note, after I bought this book, we decided to move all the way to SSRS 2008 despite it's "newness" and our hesitancy to use Microsoft products prior to SP-1 releases. SSRS 2008 adds quite a bit, including HTML-formatted text boxes, the ability to add rich-text to sections of text within a text box (e.g.; bold, italicize or color only one word in a sentence), as well as fix an undocumented bug with the matrix control that forces page overruns the size of the number of dynamic columns that are added (drove me crazy for a week). So I'll probably be buying the 2008 version of this book to get more up-to-date info.
 Confusing! April 10, 2008
Book worm (Australia)
The reason for being so confusing is this book was written by so many authors, thereby the ideas presented are not coherent. This is not a learner's book, and if you're looking for one I suggest you buy Brian Larson's instead - great book, easy to follow and the author will patiently answer your inquiries regarding some minor problems.
I bought this book yesterday hoping I could supplement the things I've already learned previously regarding RS, but no, I'll return this book today and ask for a refund.
About Average August 9, 2007
SPYRIDON PRANTALOS (Miami, FL USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is about average. With that I am not implying that it is a bad book but rather that you could find the same information on the Internet just by googling a little bit. I guess I was expecting to find something really clever in it, something that it would make it more useful that simple internet articles. Again, not a bad book but also not one that will make the difference.
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