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Recommend a book

  • August 29, 2014 at 2:49 am

    #397276

    I'm going to be using Reporting services on SQL2008 R2.

    Can anyone recommend a book for someone who is new to reporting services but comfortable with SQL Server. I would like the book to be focused on designing reports to get me up and running quickly. i.e. conditional formatting, drill downs, subreports etc. Parameter passing to SPs etc

    I played with it a couple of years back and was impressed. I did have problems in that the version I was and will be using "workgroup edition" had stuff disabled; scheduled reports, sharing datasources.

    It Does concern me that I will have to create a Datasource for each report (what if the DB moves?).

    Thanks

  • August 29, 2014 at 3:18 am

    #1741832

    This is quite a nice book that will get you up and running fairly quickly:

    SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints

    Review here[/url].

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  • August 29, 2014 at 5:34 am

    #1741852

    Thanks, not heard the term blueprint before , but sounds what I need.

    However can't find 2008 version.

  • August 29, 2014 at 5:42 am

    #1741854

    terry999 (8/29/2014)

    Thanks, not heard the term blueprint before , but sounds what I need.

    However can't find 2008 version.

    There are not that much differences between 2008 and 2012, so the book might still be useful.

    There are additional chart types introduced in 2008R2 though.

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  • August 29, 2014 at 5:58 am

    #1741859

    Thanks. I'll go for that

    I wish I had better version than workgroup edition, scheduling reports as Excel attachments via email - is such a great idea

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