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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Recipes

May 2nd, 2010
I got hold of the book Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Recipes from Amazon a few days back. I read through it, it is truly a special book. The book is co-authored by Paul Turley and Robert Bruckner with contributions from 9 other reporting services experts from around the world.

The book starts with basic concepts and essential techniques in report design with Reporting Services. Then it dives into 63 in-depth topics on advanced reporting design. The recipes are generally organized with several sections:

  1. Product versions that the recipe could be applied to
  2. What prerequisite skills needed
  3. How to design the report in a step by step recipe style
  4. Final thoughts on the recipe
  5. (When applicable) Credits and related references are listed at the end

This book was available just before SQL Server 2008 R2 went RTM in April. One thing of note is that quite a few recipes in the book use SQL Server 2008 R2 specific technology (such as domain scope, maps, aggregates of aggregates, and read-write report variables).

To sum it up, it is a great reference to those who want to create some non-trivial reports.

  1. http://blogs.msdn.com/robertbruckner/archive/2010/03/21/reporting-services-recipes-book-released.aspx
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