| | |  | Software Engineering | Home » » » Pro SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Books for Professionals by Professionals) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Take full advantage of everything SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services has to offer and deliver customizable, web–enabled reports across your business at a reasonable cost. Learn best–practices from professionals who use SQL Server Reporting Services daily to deliver solutions to paying clients and gain the competitive edge on using Microsoft’s enterprise–level reporting platform. - Provides best–practices for using Reporting Services
- Written by practicing professionals with paying clients
- Your key to delivering business intelligence across the enterprise
What you’ll learn - Write efficient queries on which to base a report
- Build and lay out a report using Report Designer
- Enable end users to create ad hoc reports on demand
- Combine Reporting Services with Analysis Services, SharePoint Portal Server, and other technologies to deliver business intelligence across the enterprise
- Secure and audit your reports as part of your regulatory compliance efforts
- Customize your reports using C# assemblies and embedded Visual Basic .NET code
Who this book is for Data analysts, developers, database administrators, and others who develop and deploy reports using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Rodney Landrum | | Paperback:
| 424 pages | | Publisher:
| Apress | | Publication Date:
| August 21, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1590599926 | | Product Length:
| 9.2 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.55 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
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18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Find and Replace Failure!Nov 30, 2008
By Giovanni8089
Let me start by saying, anyone who gives the book higher than 1 star rating is either profiting from the sale of this book or didn't actually read it.
It's obvious that the instructions were either written for a previous version of SSRS or a 2008 pre-release.
The instructions have way too many discrepancies with reality!!! "Right click this and then select that..." Well, "that" doesn't exist. This issue happens all throughout the book and it's extremely frustrating.
Everyone deserves a refund! Buying this book is a waste of your money.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Don't waste your moneyNov 24, 2008
By K. Frost
"Short-term decisions lead to long term Disasters"
I have the 2005 version of this book I purchased several years ago but ended up not being able to look at it. I opened it up a couple of weeks ago and realized I might as well start on 2008 since that's the platform I predominantly use and the 2005 didn't synch up well with the 2008 interface.
So I ordered this book. First it's the same book with an attempt to go in and edit where necessary where there were changes in 2008. So with that I'm kind of miffed I paid $39.99 for the same book I already have with minor changes.
To make matters worse, this must have been edited during the beta because I'm through chapter 3 right now and the start versions of the reports I've yet to find one that works by just following what's in the book.
Things such as right click to open up properties of a row group is incorrect, you must also select group properties. They tell you to go to the layout tab but it's called the Design tab in 08. These couple of things are minor but it tells me this book was hastily done without much attention to detail and in my opinion doesn't warrant it's cost. Also, how about an upgrade price for persons who purchased the first one?
The group on's don't work like mentioned in the book in most cases following the procedures in the order presented in the book.
Bottom line, for me to make a purchase such as this, I do it so I don't have to hassle with tinkering. To me this is a book in the category of do what I mean versus what I say. Again, for my purpose of spending $40 on a book, it totally defeats the purpose of the purchase if I have to fill in blanks to get things to work.
If I want to waste the time doing that I'll go on line and just use the documenation.
The download also contains a start version and an working version. It's starting to become clear that the RDL definitions from previous versions will work but trying to follow the instructions of making the start.rdl's work clearly don't work.
Take image.rdl versus's Image Start.rdl. Image.RDL is in a Tablix but Image Start.RDL is not so the fields in it aren't bound.
I had to play around for 30 minutes of manipulating to figure out a way to get it to work. Again, complete waste of money if you look for books that you appear to be as close to error free so you can learn and then use as a reference.
Wait for a book that written from scratch on the RTM of BI 2008 tools.
Note: I submitted errata for this book last week and still haven't heard a response so I'm checking into the hassle of trying to return this and get my money back.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Difficult to followSep 08, 2009
By Brian
I've used over a hundred technical books and this is easily one of the most confusing and incomplete ones that I have ever used. Frequently you will find yourself trying to reverse engineer the source code samples because the instructions in the book are missing a variety of key steps that need to be done in order to follow along. I recommend looking for another book if you need help with SSRS.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Horrible Outdated insructionsJul 29, 2010
By Rodney Duke
"music fan"
As other reviewers have pointed out, the instructions are for a previous version. They don't work. They reference items that don't even exist. Menu options that don't exist. Objects that don't exist. What a nightmare. A total waste of money. This book obviously went through NO quality control whatsoever. They should have seen that the instructions failed on every example.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Worst SSRS Book Ever!Nov 27, 2010
By SQLArch
This is the most frustrating experience I had with a technical , "hands-on" book, ever! This book was clearly written for a previous version on SSRS and it seems the authors changed the "2005" on the tittle to "2008". I can not imagine "Pro's" will do such a cheap trick for money. There are countless cases in this book where you will be instructed to right click and select an option, the problem is, that option does not really exist in SSRS 2008, because this book was written for SSRS 2005! Please do not waste your money on this book, and shame on the authors for trying to make money by making quick "search and replace" edits on the SSRS 2005 book and sell it as SSRS 2008.
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