Reporting Services book

[jby1]

Hi

Can anybody recommend a good book for getting started with SQL Reporting Services? Would also want to move onto fairly advanced stuff pretty quickly.

Thank you

 

[yfatgo]

very easy to read and understand :
"Reporting Services in action"
by Teo Lachev foreword by Brian Welcker

 

[SQLSister]

yfatgo, if you tell me who publishes it I can add it to the FAQ on recommended SQL Books. It would be good to have something in there about Reporting Services.

Questions about posting. See faq183-874

 

[jby1]

I agree. I did look at the list before bothering the forum!!!

 

[jby1]

To answer my own question, get "Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services", by Peter Blackburn and William R. Vaughn, published by Addison Wesley.

This is a very comprehensive guide to Reporting Services, which goes beyond the simple 'How to drag controls onto a form' and tackles advanced subjects that I couldn't see the same depth in any other book I considered. There are lots of very useful tips and workarounds in it as well.

In addition, the authors have a web forum where they answer (and they do!) questions any reader may have about the book. Although I have found in my short time using it that the answer to most questions is in the book somewhere.

Add this to the recommended SQL Books!