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Microsoft Reporting Services in Action Teo Lachev 2004 | 656 pages ISBN: 1932394222 |
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$25.00 | PDF ebook | |
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$49.95 | Softbound print book | |
Book Reviews
"As its title precisely indicates, this book does a respectable job, in 16 chapters, of describing in a "how-to” format the intricacies of this fairly new Microsoft product...there are less than a dozen books dealing with MSRS, I think this is the best of the competition...
At the end of each chapter is a very valuable guide to additional resources...The book has a very
readable and somewhat conversational style; coupled with its excellent summary charts and tables,
plus the many hands-on examples, the manuscript should be useful for new users (and managers) of
the product...In summary, I believe this is a valuable and useful source for introducing new users and managers to the utility and tools provided in MSRS."
-- Computing Reviews
"This book was great for giving me a better understanding of the workings of Reporting Services. I do have one other book on RS but it did little to get me beyond the hands-on labs I'd already been through. This book takes you to the next level (and beyond) to really tap into the flexibility of RS and how to get it to do what you want. It does have a developer slant to it, but I am not a developer and was able to stay with it. It reviews the anatomy of a report and takes you through sample reports, building from simple reports to more complex ones that resemble more of what you would find in the real world. It even talks about creating external assemblies and invoking that code from RS. It also addresses report management, security, OLAP, and performance considerations.
This book also tells you what cannot be done with RS (in this version, anyway) potentially saving me a lot of time and effort in trying! I highly recommend this book I do not think I will need another RS book until the next version comes out. Hopefully, this author will produce an updated version at that time."
-- North Texas SQL Server Users Group
"A practical resource, manual, and self-teaching guide to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. Half devoted to mastering basic skills system administrators need to use the software to create reports and secure the report environment, and half geared toward developer techniques to integrate RS with WinForm or web-based applications...a solid, methodical, example and screenshot-filled guide and a superb reference for anyone charged with tasks involving the use of Microsoft Reporting Services software."
-- Midwest Book Review
"Provided wonderful insight as to how Reporting Services works ...easy to read and included good examples."
-- St. Louis SQL Server User Group (STLSSUG)
"This is really a how-to book on the use of SQL Server's new Reporting Services. It is written from a standpoint of not just repeating the product documentation that comes from Microsoft, but from the view of the developer who has to implement a solution.
It used to be that a report was basically a printed document. But now, this view has changed, and Reporting Services incorporates not only printed reports, but also reports that are to be web distributed, or as the information content for an OLAP application, enterprise level reports, or subscribed reports that are to be distributed automatically. This should be the only reporting services book you'll need - until of course the new versions of RS become available."
-- Books-on-Line
DESCRIPTION
Business reporting is a lifeline of business, so a better reporting environment is a big deal. With a sophisticated, modern tool like Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, you can report-enable any type of application, regardless of its targeted platform or development language.
Written for information workers, system administrators, and developers, this book is a detailed and practical guide to the functionality provided by Reporting Services. It systematically shows off many powerful RS features by leading you through a dizzying variety of possible uses. Following a typical report lifecycle, the book shows you how to create, manage, and deliver RS reports.
In the first half, you will master the skills you need to create reports. System administrators will learn the ropes of managing and securing the report environment. The second half of the book teaches developers the techniques they need to integrate RS with their WinForm or web-based applications. It does this with the help of a wide variety of real-world scenarios which will give you ideas on how to use RS in addition to teaching you the ropes.
An experienced software designer and developer, Teo Lachev works as a technology consultant with the Enterprise Application Services practice of Hewlett-Packard. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Teo lives in Atlanta, GA.
What's Inside
- Extend RS with custom code
- Implement dynamic reports with Office Web Components
- Create reports off ADO.NET datasets
- Deliver reports to Web Services
- Expose reports as RSS feeds
- Customize RS security
- Evaluate RS performance and capacity
- and more
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK...
"There are less than a dozen books dealing with MSRS, I think this is the best of the competition."
-- Computing Reviews