Good Reporting Service Books

I'm wondering if anyone has any good Reporting Services books they recommend.
I'm a DBA so I don't actually do or need to know the report development and
deployment but need to know the back-end of RS - the security - etc. Many of
the books I've seen so far concentrate on report creation. If anyone has any
good suggestions they would be appreciated.http://www.sqlreportingservices.net/
Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
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"tsorv" <tsorv@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm wondering if anyone has any good Reporting Services books they
> recommend.
> I'm a DBA so I don't actually do or need to know the report development
> and
> deployment but need to know the back-end of RS - the security - etc. Many
> of
> the books I've seen so far concentrate on report creation. If anyone has
> any
> good suggestions they would be appreciated.|||I own 6 books - as a DBA I find them all to offer different ways of
explaining things.
I reccommend the following 4 - ranking them from highest to lowest for what
you want:
Hitchhikers Guide To SQL Server 2000 ISBN: 0-321-26828-8
Microsoft Reporting Services In Action ISBN: 1-932394-22-2
Professional SQL Server Reporting Services ISBN: 0-7645-6878-7
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services ISBN: 0-07-223216-1
Of course, each book offers information on report creation - but tucked away
in each is information on report security that every DBA should know, in
addition to installation issues, solutions, installing SSL, etc that have
nothing to do with report creation.
Good luck.
=-Chris
"tsorv" <tsorv@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm wondering if anyone has any good Reporting Services books they
> recommend.
> I'm a DBA so I don't actually do or need to know the report development
> and
> deployment but need to know the back-end of RS - the security - etc. Many
> of
> the books I've seen so far concentrate on report creation. If anyone has
> any
> good suggestions they would be appreciated.|||I'd definately recommend the Hitchhikers Guide. As yet another DBA I found
it very useful and it has a good focus on security. It also got me
interested in the SOAP side of things and I've ben having lots of fun/pain
writing some scripting utilities for environment migrations. I haven't read
the others but I have ordered Reporting Services in Action based on
recommendations from others.
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"Christopher Conner" <someone@.someplace.com> wrote in message
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>I own 6 books - as a DBA I find them all to offer different ways of
>explaining things.
> I reccommend the following 4 - ranking them from highest to lowest for
> what you want:
> Hitchhikers Guide To SQL Server 2000 ISBN: 0-321-26828-8
> Microsoft Reporting Services In Action ISBN: 1-932394-22-2
> Professional SQL Server Reporting Services ISBN: 0-7645-6878-7
> Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services ISBN: 0-07-223216-1
> Of course, each book offers information on report creation - but tucked
> away in each is information on report security that every DBA should know,
> in addition to installation issues, solutions, installing SSL, etc that
> have nothing to do with report creation.
> Good luck.
> =-Chris
>
> "tsorv" <tsorv@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8FAD8E6A-8CDF-44A7-B82F-53D50A1585A4@.microsoft.com...
>> I'm wondering if anyone has any good Reporting Services books they
>> recommend.
>> I'm a DBA so I don't actually do or need to know the report development
>> and
>> deployment but need to know the back-end of RS - the security - etc.
>> Many of
>> the books I've seen so far concentrate on report creation. If anyone has
>> any
>> good suggestions they would be appreciated.
>|||hi
I studied differnt books on security.
Among all those books I felt " Microsoft SQL server 2000 Reporting Services"
is the best fit for DBA.
Allthebest
"Adrian M." wrote:
> http://www.sqlreportingservices.net/
> Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
> --
> Adrian M.
> MCP
> "tsorv" <tsorv@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8FAD8E6A-8CDF-44A7-B82F-53D50A1585A4@.microsoft.com...
> > I'm wondering if anyone has any good Reporting Services books they
> > recommend.
> > I'm a DBA so I don't actually do or need to know the report development
> > and
> > deployment but need to know the back-end of RS - the security - etc. Many
> > of
> > the books I've seen so far concentrate on report creation. If anyone has
> > any
> > good suggestions they would be appreciated.
>
>|||tsorv wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone has any good Reporting Services books they recommend.
> I'm a DBA so I don't actually do or need to know the report development and
> deployment but need to know the back-end of RS - the security - etc. Many of
> the books I've seen so far concentrate on report creation. If anyone has any
> good suggestions they would be appreciated.
Unfortunately, I have read several and they all stink and contain
errors. The worst Crystal reports book is better than the best RS books.|||Bryon wrote:
> tsorv wrote:
>> I'm wondering if anyone has any good Reporting Services books they
>> recommend. I'm a DBA so I don't actually do or need to know the
>> report development and deployment but need to know the back-end of RS
>> - the security - etc. Many of the books I've seen so far concentrate
>> on report creation. If anyone has any good suggestions they would be
>> appreciated.
>
> Unfortunately, I have read several and they all stink and contain
> errors. The worst Crystal reports book is better than the best RS books.
Although after reading the other posts I need to checkout the Hitchhiker
book.|||I definitely recommend the Hitchhiker's Guide, but beware that it seems
to be targeted more at the administrator, DBA, or lead developer,
rather than the average report developer. By this, I mean that it
contains a wealth of knowledge on installation, configuration,
security, and programability, but the chapters on Report Design are
limited to solving some higher level problems rather than focusing on
the basics. IMHO it isnt comprehensive enough to teach someone how to
write reports if they have never used the Report Designer.
This is fine for the "one man show" approach to using Sql Reporting
Services, but any large implementation will likely have one or two
admins/leads, and at least 3-4 people who are pure "report authors".
The latter group isnt always interested in many of the advanced topics
and may need more "bread and butter" tutorials on how to create various
styles of reports.
Can anyone recommend a RS book targeted more at the report
designer/author?
Thank you,
Lance Hunt
http://weblogs.asp.net/lhunt/