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Paul Turley (Author), Thiago Silva (Author), Bryan C. Smith (Author), Ken Withee (Author)
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  • Teaches solution architects, designers, and developers how to use Microsoft′s reporting platform to create reporting and business intelligence (BI) solutions
  • Updated with new information about holistic BI solutions, comprehensive OLAP/Analysis Services reporting, and complete production deployment scenarios
  • Includes programming examples focused on specific, scenario–based solutions
  • Explains reporting services architecture and business intelligence, teaches the fundamentals of designing reports through the use of careful planning considerations, and covers advanced report design and filtering techniques

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Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

SQL Server Reporting Services makes reporting faster and easier than ever. This hands–on guide will show you how to harness the full power of Reporting Services to create reporting and business intelligence solutions that meet your company′s needs. It walks you step–by–step through the fundamentals of designing the most effective reports by following careful planning considerations.

The authors progress from beginning to advanced report design and filtering techniques, showing you the conditions where reports could be more efficient. They also explore holistic business intelligence solutions, comprehensive OLAP/Analysis Services reporting, and complete production–deployment scenarios.

You′ll learn how to write custom expressions and program functions to meet specific reporting needs. This will help you design, build, and deploy reports with capabilities far greater than any other reporting tools you may have used in the past. The techniques covered in the book will also enable you to take reporting further than you have before and provide your users with real business intelligence.

What you will learn from this book

  • Using reports to visualize important business–decision metrics

  • Building the presentation layer for an enterprise business intelligence solution

  • Reporting from OLAP cubes and relational database systems

  • Enabling information workers to easily create their own self–service reports

  • Real–world report design patterns and recipes

  • Designing and deploying reports for enterprise portals and dashboards, including SharePoint technologies

  • Advanced object–oriented programming techniques for extending and adding functionality to Reporting Services

Who this book is for
This book is for report designers, developers, administrators, and business professionals interested in learning the advanced functionality, reporting, server administration, and security issues of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A useful resource 17 Nov 2009
Format:Paperback
Covers the key functionality in a useful and generally well thought out way.

A little bit more time could have been spent on chapter content and layout/editing in the aim of avoiding repetition and achieving concise expression but in the fast changing world of computer software this is usually more of an aspiration than a reality in manuals such as these.

I'm glad I bought it and it has proved useful - that's the main test I suppose.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have worked in the Business Information space for over 10 years and bought this book to add SQL Server Reporting Services to my set of expertise.

The book is poorly arranged. A large portion of beginning focuses on the overall architecture and then a summary of each report object. Only in Chapter 6 does the reader actually start creating reports. I spent hours trying to figure out why my report was not like the one in the example - only to find either the example is plainly wrong or the author has left out crucial information or steps.

Wrox normally provide very good technical books, and fortunately the SSAS and SSIS books in the SQL Server 2008 professional series are very good. This book unfortunately is very disappointing and I would suggest anyone interested in SQL Sever 2008 Reporting Services look elsewhere.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Good admin info, not so much on report design 25 Mar 2009
By WebDev511 - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
The back end info is very good, but the report design section suffers because it was written before the report designer was done.

Buy it if you want the updated backend info, wait for a second edition if you are more interested in report design/development.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Good for developers 8 Jun 2009
By D. Dollahite - Published on Amazon.com
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I have the 2005 version of the same book and reviewed it here: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Server-2005-Reporting-Services/product-reviews/0764584979/ref=cm_cr_dp_synop?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending#R202BG2RSEPRFO. Just copy and paste that link to read it. I bought the 2008 version when we decided to go SSRS 2008 to get a bug fixed on the matrix control overrunning the page width with dynamic columns. Pretty much everything I said in that review for the 2005 book applies to the 2008 book. I don't know why people bash this book. It gives you what you need. Actually, it covers quite a bit. I used one section to help me create my own app to better control report publishing. I can see if all you do is report design and don't have to worry about any kind of maintenance, programming, or administration this book might be a little thin on content. But it still gives you what you need, and if you are a beginning report designer then you shouldn't be looking at any book with "Professional" in the title. Get the "Beginner" one. This is for developers with a fair amount of experience in report design. It certainly isn't 100% of what you'll ever need. You'll find yourself constantly scouring the web for workarounds and code samples. But I also have the Microsoft SSRS 2008 book and that pretty much covers less but it geared more toward walk-throughs. This one definitely has more content. I can't see doing what I do without this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A good book on SSRS... 24 Nov 2009
By Sudheer K. Maharana - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I know some of the reviewers have been very critical on this book. I assume that they are very advanced Report writers.

I had the 2005 version of this book and found this version of the book to be very helpful. The book covers both administration and programming aspects of SSRS. Honestly speaking, it is very good for reference. I found some chapters have gone too detail in explaining and some chapters are laid out with basic information. I am currently working on a proof of concept project to integrate reporting services with .Net application to render all the reporting type of information via.Net Applications. Chapter 15 gave me a jump start in this along with publishing reports on sharepoint. I am sure SSRS has come a long way to stay in the reporting arena and this book provides very good information for developers in SSRS or who are transitioning to SSRS from other reporting tools.

This book has explained well on installation and configuration of SSRS which provides the report designers and developers, information on the internal architecture of SSRS.
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