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Mastering SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Infrastructure Design |  | Author: Joseph L. Jorden
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 486
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0470114592
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585
EAN: 9780470114599
ASIN: 0470114592
Publication Date: August 6, 2007
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Product Description
- Reporting Services is a powerful tool for SQL Server 2005 database administrators, developers, and other IT professionals, enabling them to make sense of the immense amount of data generated by enterprises of all sizes
- Shows readers how to create, manage, and distribute information as well as how to design, produce, and distribute reports that meet the needs of the stakeholder
- Contains practical insights and real-world solutions not found in other books
- Bridges the gap between those who manage data and those who need it
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nuts and bolts for creating reports February 11, 2008
Lefty (TX USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book has a lot of good information and presents the nuts and bolts of creating reports in the Reporting Services. I found the layout and the descriptions to be very good.
 Light on technical content September 11, 2008
James W. Anderson (Alpharetta, GA USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a pretty helpful resource overall, but if you buy this book, just skip the first part entirely and start with Chapter 7. For some inexplicable reason the author felt it important to regurgitate basic project management and planning concepts in the first part, which anyone in IT will already know or at least have other, better references for. So basically, the first hundred pages are a waste of space, in my opinion.
The rest of the book does a pretty good job covering SRS features, including installation aspects, ongoing maintenance, and performance tuning and troubleshooting. If you're new to Reporting Services, or have only a basic or intermediate working knowledge of the product, this book does have some good info to share. I do wish that the author had taken the time to illustrate more of the architectural aspects of the product, or at least go into detail beyond simple "here's the SQL Server and there's the Reporting Services server" with a line between them. Show the reader how the different pieces of SRS fit together and work, and illustrate the relationships between the different reporting objects, data sources, and so on. There are lots of screen prints to show end user scenarios, but the book is surprisingly light on architectural concepts, something I expected more in a book that touts itself as a resource on "infrastructure design."
In summary, it's a pretty good technical resource overall, but could do without the entire first part and could use more detailed diagrams of the product architecture.
Also, and this is a slam against the publisher and not the author: a better quality grade of paper would be appreciated. The MSRP for this text is nearly sixty bucks, yet it was printed on the cheapest pulp there is. My copy is less than three months old and already the pages have yellowed and taken on a musty "library smell." I have O'Reilly and MS Press books that are ten years old or better and the pages are still white and "stink-free." I know, a petty gripe, but these books aren't cheap so is that too much to ask?
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