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Title: Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))
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| Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) by Microsoft Press What a waste! | | I purchased the book well over a year ago and placed it in my library for future reference. Now that I finally need it to dig into SSRS further, I'm truly disappointed. Besides the well documented script to load the databases not working, I've found plenty of instances where I found myself truly lost in the "Step by Step". I really had to go back time after time to see if I missed something. Low and behold, I didn't miss a thing. This was an extreme waste of valuable time away from projects. What the book is missing is a really good technical review. Long story short, placed this one on the shelf and ordered Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services 2005 by Brian Larson. Now I'm beginning to wonder about my SSAS Step by Step now. Then again, I'll just save my self valuable time and pick up another SSAS anyway. Hope this helps! | | Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) by Microsoft Press Just starting to create reports - Found this book VERY helpful | | I am new to SQL Reporting Services. I found this book very helpful with its step-by-step approach. I would recommend it for beginners. | | Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) by Microsoft Press Typical poor quality MS Step-By-Step | | I agree with the other reviewer that had trouble installing the sample files: there's no excuse that Microsoft Press should have let this book out the door without some basic technical review. In order to successfully install the files, you must manually edit the attach_databases.sql file to map the @physname paths to the .mdf files stored in your My Documents folder rather than c:\rs2005sbs (which is never created by the installer). For the intended audience of this book, that's an unnecessary hastle that the use user should have to go through. | | Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) by Microsoft Press Lost In SQL | I am migrating our databases from Pervasive to MS SQL. We have a large amount of compiled (V7) Crystal Reports that will need to be updated and I was hoping to use the 2005 SQL Reporting Services instead.
The major problem with this book is the very first script used to load the sample database fails. From this point on you might as well trash the book since none of the exercises will work. To run the first script the author gives you the complete file path for the command and the sample database. This path is 8 layers deep. The actual SQL query used to install the sample database has a completely different path, so the installation fails. Ok....I figured out the path problem and moved the files to where the SQL query wants them to be. I ran the installation script again and now I able to install the sample database. The next problem....the SQL query also configures the user logins to the database.....it fails!!!! I am new to SQL so I am now lost since I can not configure the user logins.
I bought this book as a learning tool!! Now it sits collecting dust!!
In reply to Dr. Ribeiro Silva's comments
Point taken, but you missed the point completely.
I will try to explain it another way. You need to learn how to drive a car. You buy a training package from Eddie's Driving School. It includes a training manual and a used car. The package is delivered by UPS. You stay up all night reading the manual and the next day you are ready to drive. You get in the car and turn the key....nothing happens. The car will not start! You re-read the driving manual and find nothing in it about troubleshooting why your car will not start!!
This is the problem with this book. It is supposed to teach you how to create reports from a 2005 SQL server. It is not a training course on installing and troubleshooting a 2005 SQL database. The book provides a pre-configured 2005 SQL database and the installation scripts to install the database. When you run the installation script, the installation fails with numerous errors. In other words, the provided database "engine" is broken and will not run!! Since the database is not installed properly by the provided software you can not do any of the exercises.
Since I need to learn this subject, I took the official Microsoft SQL Reporting class. I brought the book to my class and the instructor spent his entire lunch hour trying to follow the directions in the book to install the provided 2005 SQL database. He could not.
| | Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) by Microsoft Press Needs technical review but has a ton of information. | I found the book extremely useful in getting me pointed in the right direction with Reporting Services. I used the book less as a technical reference and more as an overview of how Reporting Services works and what options are available for solving reporting problems in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
I agree with the other reviewers that the book needs additional technical editing. For example, in Chapter 9 Stacia states that the rs.exe utility can be used with C# and that sample scripts are installed with SQL Server 2005. I have not seen a reference anywhere else on the web that states rs.exe can be used with C# and after installing SQL Server 2005 multiple times with every sample database I could find I did not get any sample scripts in the location specified.
If you use the book for an overview of SSRS you will gain many insights into how Reporting Services works but for the detailed technical details I would recommend the MSDN books. | | Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) by Microsoft Press Product Description | | Your hands-on, practical guide to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Get started using Business Intelligence tools that simplify data analysis and reporting with this popular, learn-by-doing tutorial. |
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