Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

I used Reporting Services since its first release. Have a couple of books on RS 2000 but this one is the first I bought on SSRS. Great book for everyone, detailed, easy to read, deep and rich in examples. Something very valuable is the complete code online available to everyone to download. I can conclude that this book is a must for someone who's starting with SSRS or wants to enhance the knowledge. It's a must in every bookshelf.

This book is an excellent way to begin understanding this technology Microsoft released. Step by step explains the most important concepts about SSRS with tips and recomendations to do the things better. You can buy this book without any problem.

I have read all the SRS2005 books out there so far. This is one of the best. Very well done.

Till today I never found a good book in SQL Server Reporting Services. This book covers a lot of features, to get you ready to work on Complex Reports. Very good step by step instructions with working examples. It starts from a beginner level and proceeds with Advanced Report Design.The best part I liked was the explanation about Rendering reports using .NET code, .NET IO namespace classes, and URL rendering deployment strategies to handle hardware, software, and platform considerations, licensing issues, and scaling options. I highly recomend this as a very important source to learn Reporting Services

Virtually all the information that a company has is maintained in databases. This includes information from vatious department such as personnel, sales, manufacturing, all of which needs to be pulled together into intelligible reports if they are to be of any use to management. In the past Microsoft had SQL Server as a pretty fair database. Certainly compteitive with Oracle and IBM's DB2. But all the database did was take in and give back data. It was up to you to take that data and put it into a report form if you wanted to have other people make sense out of it. Microsoft seems to have developed a philosophy of extending the SQL Server package to incorporate a bunch of new features. Reporting Services is one of these. Basically Reporting Services takes the raw data out of the database and presents it in a more understandable format, being a report, a chart or whatever. The book is what you would expect. It is a complete guide to using Reporting Services from its installation to tieing the database to the web, security aspects, and everything else there is to know about the product. I rate this as a bit above the beginner level. It assumes a bit of background in SQL Server, it assumes that you have a system set up with SQL SErver and Reporting Services running. From there it talks about making reports and then making reports better shaped, styled, and useful to the user. You need to know a bit about SQL. There's a couple of appendicies on SQL, but having some background knowledge about SQL would make your understanding a lot better.