Pro SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services [Paperback]

Rodney Landrum (Author), Walter II Voytek (Author)

Book Description

Series: Pro | Publication Date: June 2005

SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 is the latest version of the reporting technology from Microsoft, providing the means to design, author, render, and deploy business reports to users, customers, and employees, via the web or the company intranet. The reporting engine is built in to the SQL Server 2005 database (and provided as a free add-on with SQL Server 2000) and the report manager is integrated with Visual Studio 2003, providing an effective and familiar environment for all SQL Server and .NET developers.

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 Services tasks.

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About the Author

Rodney Landrum

Rodney is a MCSE working as a systems engineer and DBA for a software development company that specializes in applications for the healthcare industry. He has written for numerous magazines including Windows and .Net, SQL Server, Connected Home, TSQL Solutions, Microsoft Certified Professional and Electronic House magazines. In addition to writing for SQLserversite, a project initiated by Curlingstone Press, he has also been assigned technical editing roles for Tony Redmond’s article on SharePoint Portal Server for Windows and .Net magazine and Query Performance Tuning for Curlingstone. He is also a public speaker and has given presentation on VPN Security and Cost Analysis and Data Mining Solutions in Healthcare. He has been very active on the beta testing program for this product and has made several recommendations that will be incorporated into the final release.

Walter J. Voytek II

Walter is the CEO and President of HealthWare Corporation, a Microsoft Certified Partner, specializing in information technology solutions for the healthcare industry. He has worked in information technology for over 30 years and healthcare IT for nearly 20 years. He has spoken publicly at a number of national conventions and also speaks for HealthWare Corporation in a variety of settings each year. Walter is a firm believer that business advantage can be gained through the proper use of technology. As the founder and chief software architect for HealthWare Walter has been instrumental in applying this philosophy to the design and development of HealthWare's award winning solutions based on Microsoft technologies. Walter actively participates in many Microsoft beta and early adoption programs such as SQL Reporting Services and SQL Server 2005.

Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: A-Press; 1 edition (June 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590594983
• ISBN-13: 978-1590594988
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,072,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy to follow, April 5, 2006

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K. Remail - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Paperback)

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.

25 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You should probably look elsewhere, March 16, 2006

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Terry Smith "http://terrysmith.net -- http:/... (Little Rock, AR USA) - See all my reviews
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I found this book to be weird quiet frankly. Chapter 2 goes off the deep-end of designing efficient queries before you've even built a report yet. That material should have been put at the end of the book. Creating a report with the report wizard is covered in Chapter 4 but probably would have been best if it was before Chapter 3 which covers creating a report manually. I didn't find anything "Pro", as the name implies, or advanced with the book. It's a broad introductory text only. Also, it only covers using the ReportViewer control for Win Forms and not the one Web Forms. The two are similar enough but coverage of both would have been better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars got me up and running with SSRS QUICK!, April 24, 2008

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Radames Ortega Pol "Radames Ortega" (San Juan, Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews
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Loved the writing style. I really appreciated that instead of boring us with an introductory chapter to RDL (Report Definition Language), they sneak it in here and there, keeping the info flowing at a good pace. Plus they wrote the book based on a real-world project they worked on, which makes it easier to grasp the concepts. I give this an A+ and will look for Apress books first from now on ;)