Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 576 pages
- Published by: Microsoft Press May 24, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0735622507
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0735622500
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
- Weighs: 2.5 pounds
Product Description
Your hands-on guide to learning
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services,
Microsoft’s customizable reporting solution for business data analysis. Reporting Services is a powerful tool for business intelligence, so an understanding of the essentials—how to architect a report, as well as how to install and program Reporting Services—is key to harnessing the full benefits of SQL Server. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to get started, how to use the report project wizard, how to think about and access data, and how to build queries. It also walks you through the creation of charts and visual layouts to enable maximum visual understanding of the data analysis. Interactivity features (enhanced in SQL Server 2005) and security are also covered in detail. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you’re a beginning programmer or new to this version of the technology, you’ll understand the fundamental techniques for using Reporting Services. A companion CD includes data sets and sample code.
Publisher Description
The popular STEP BY STEP approach provides hands-on guidance to beginning-level and new-to-SQL Server 2005 programmers. A sequential, learn-by-doing tutorial, this book covers key features and techniques of Reporting Services to help programmers harness the full power of SQL Server 2005. The enclosed CD includes data sets and sample code.
Key Book Benefits:
-Delivers step-by-step instruction about how to install, enable, envision, create, and share reports based on SQL Server 2005 data stores.
-Provides hands-on exercises that develop proficiency quickly—based on data stores and examples provided on the enclosed CD.
-Features expertise from Hitachi Consulting, which creates specialized SQL Server-based data solutions for corporate customers.
-STEP BY STEP is ideal for anyone with a basic understanding of SQL Server.
Reader ReviewsI found the book extremely useful in getting me pointed in the right direction with Reporting Services. I used the book less as a technical reference and more as an overview of how Reporting Services works and what options are available for solving reporting problems in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). I agree with the other reviewers that the book needs additional technical editing. For example, in Chapter 9 Stacia states that the rs.exe utility can be used with C# and that sample scripts are installed with SQL Server 2005. I have not seen a reference anywhere else on the web that states rs.exe can be used with C# and after installing SQL Server 2005 multiple times with every sample database I could find I did not get any sample scripts in the location specified. If you use the book for an overview of SSRS you will gain many insights into how Reporting Services works but for the detailed technical details I would recommend the MSDN books.
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