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Summary: Decent overview. No depth. Info on MS website
Review: This is a quick overview of reporting services and lacks any depth at all. Virtually all the information is present in Reporting Services Books Online or on the Reporting Services website. The book might be useful to someone as a quick reference guide.
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Summary: Not good
Review: Well If you already have the SQL Server Reporting Services, just read the BOL. BOL is slightly better than this book!
If you are a beginner and want to know about the Reporting Services, don't buy it, it's just a reference book, not a step by step book. If you already know how to use the Reporting Services and tend to forget how to do what, this is the book for you.
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Summary: A very good introduction to reporting services
Review: While not a deep technical treatise on the topic, this book will get those just starting with reporting services working quickly. If your evaluating RS for use and don't have the time for full fledged training, this book will allow you to install the server, configure basic security, and start generating simple reports. Keeping in mind that you will not find all the answers here, this book is succinct and delivers the essentials.
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Summary: Not For Beginners
Review: While this book provides a very broad overview of SQL Reporting, a lot of detailed information is left out that will cause a good deal of frustration for the beginning user. With the lack of information, you often have to relay on the help screen information or Microsoft's web site to fill in the gaps.
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Summary: Leaves me wanting more
Review: You can hardly get a new (current) book for as little as this book costs (under $10) and, for what it costs, it's okay. I just wish it didn't advertize itself as helping me to use Reporting Services. It really just helps me start to use this platform. While the book rates itself for beginners/intermediate, it is certainly no more than a beginner's beginning. This book provides series of basic lessons on using and managing Reporting Services and I was left at the end of the book feeling as if I'd wasted my time. There are so many areas where the auther simply explains what is possible but really doesn't teach me how. It also does not go into how to create new reports using Visual Studio .NET. The customization alluded to on the cover is really about parameters and filtering. In the final analysis, I'd rather pay more and get the information and learn the skills necessary to use Reporting Services effectively, not only as an end user and sometime administrator. I would have also given the book a different title to properly set up the reader's expectations before turning to page 1.
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