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SQL Server Reporting Services is the customizable reporting solution for report designers and programmers. This hands-on guide will get you up to speed quickly so you can design, deploy, manage, and even customize reporting solutions. You can create powerful reports without programming knowledge and extend reporting solutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET.
Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions, and developing deployment strategies for interacting with various platforms, this book prepares you to take full advantage of this revolutionary tool. Plus, you'll learn how to extend practically every feature of Reporting Services by implementing your own security architecture or adding custom data access.
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- Details of programming reports and report scripting
- Advanced report design, including drill-down reports, nested lists, drill-through, links, and dynamic content
- High-level strategies for business and support systems
- Rendering reports using .NET code, .NET IO namespace classes, and URL rendering deployment strategies to handle hardware, software, and platform considerations, licensing issues, and scaling options
- How to design reports for mobile services
- Various tools used to define data sources and semantic metadata models
- How to use parameters and expressions to define creative report solutions
- Advanced object-oriented programming techniques, with examples in C# and VB 2005.
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This book is for report designers, developers, administrators, and business professionals interested in learning the advanced functionality, report server administration, and security issues of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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SQL Server Reporting Services is the customizable reporting solution for report designers and programmers. This hands-on guide will get you up to speed quickly so you can design, deploy, manage, and even customize reporting solutions. You can create powerful reports without programming knowledge and extend reporting solutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET. Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions, and developing deployment strategies for interacting with various platforms, this book prepares you to take full advantage of this revolutionary tool. Plus, you'll learn how to extend practically every feature of Reporting Services by implementing your own security architecture or adding custom data access. What you will learn from this book Details of programming reports and report scripting Advanced report design, including drill-down reports, nested lists, drill-through, links, and dynamic content High-level strategies for business and support systems Rendering reports using .NET code, .NET IO namespace classes, and URL rendering deployment strategies to handle hardware, software, and platform considerations, licensing issues, and scaling options How to design reports for mobile service Various tools used to define data sources and semantic metadata models How to use parameters and expressions to define creative report solutions Advanced object-oriented programming techniques, with examples in C# and VB 2005.
Customer Reviews:
About Average.......2007-08-09
This book is about average. With that I am not implying that it is a bad book but rather that you could find the same information on the Internet just by googling a little bit. I guess I was expecting to find something really clever in it, something that it would make it more useful that simple internet articles. Again, not a bad book but also not one that will make the difference.
Tough to get through.......2007-04-13
This will probably be an ok reference for some things in ssrs, but otherwise it has been a real pain to get through. There seems to be a huge amount of repetitive informatin in the first three chapters before we actually get to start writing reports.
Unfortunately, once writing reports, it seems like the authors have ADD. They start talking about a walk through exercise but never actually have the walk through. They do have a couple of exercises where they show you how to go step by step, but these are not explained well.
I think the writing, other than being repetative, is sometimes unecessarily chatty, but at other times way to terse for beginners.
I have managed to glean some value from the book, but it's been tough. I would definitely recommend if you haven't touched SSRS yet to go through the tutorials on MSDN first. They do a better job of introducing you to basics, giving you plain instructions, and not overloading you with commentary that isn't all helpful in just getting you up to speed on how to create reports. Luckily I did this before I bought the book. I think if I was completely new to reporting and SSRS, I would have thrown this book down in disgust after the first 100 pages or so...
Surprisingly Disappointed.......2007-04-10
This is the fifth book that I have purchased from Wiley Publishing (WROX), and I must say that I have been very pleased so far by the overall quality of the publications until now. I read through the other four and still use each one of them as a relevant reference source.
I am half way thru this book and the experience has not been pleasant to say the least. The inconsistencies between the text, figure's and examples are to numerous to be overlooked. And, to be honest, this is one of the most confusing approaches that I have come across in quite some time. He is obvious very knowledge about SSRS, but during many of his explanations he orphans the examples or doesn't tie what he is explaining back to the example. This makes it very difficult to reproduce in the actual development environment. You're just left confused!
I am a twelve year veteran of Crystal Reports, Application Development and Database Design and I find this book very difficult to follow. So unfortunately, I would not recommend this particular book to others ... I am just surprisingly disappointed.
Somewhat Useful.......2007-01-12
For me, this book is "somewhat useful" because there are not a lot of publications out there on this subject. But because I needed to "hit the ground running" and start producing reports with certain functionality right away, I've found it difficult to locate the precise information I need to accomplish a particular task. On the other hand, it appears to describe the application ad naseum, so for someone with lots of time to immerse themselves, it might be the right book.
Better for inexperienced beginners.......2006-12-15
For me most of the good stuff was toward the end. If you're new and inexperienced this might be a good buy. Otherwise I'm not so sure.
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Teach yourself how to simplify team collaboration using Windows SharePoint Servicesone step at a time! With Step by Step, you work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises to learn essential techniques for using the document and project collaboration tools in Windows SharePoint Services. Designed for beginning-level and intermediate-level users, Step by Step puts you in charge of developing exactly the skills you need, just when you need them!
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Good starting point for share point services.......2007-09-20
I think this book provides a good starting point for getting to know share point services. It really helped me to get started.
The book is easy to read.
Great Book.......2007-07-09
This book has been a helpful aid to me as I learned to use Sharepoint. Nice pictures, easy to read and it gets to the point.
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)).......2007-03-11
Easy to follow, and fun to use
Easy to read and follow.......2006-11-10
I thought this book is wonderful. If you want to personalize and change default setting in SharePoint this book will show you how to do it. However, it does not cover the administration end of SharePoint.
I think the Step by Step sharePoint book is an exellent book for the for the first time users.......2006-07-24
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Of the preparation guides available for the Cisco Certified Design Associate exam (640-441), CCDA: Cisco Certified Design Associate Study Guide comes out on top. Authors Todd Lammle and Donald Porter clearly explain what you need to know, both to pass the exam and to prove yourself a competent network technician once on the job. Some of the material that appears in these pages--a table listing various Cisco router product lines, their capabilities, and suitable applications for them, to cite one example--makes great reading, and will prove useful long after the exam is over.
The authors' presentation style uses text to great effect, explaining potentially confusing topics with clear, fact-rich prose that rewards close attention from the reader. There are plenty of helpful conceptual diagrams (illustrating network segmentation with a bridge, for example) and flow charts (a good one illustrates packet-switching logic) as well.
It's sometimes possible to forget that this is an exam preparation aid, but realistic problems and multiple-choice review questions bring readers back to the task at hand. Elaborate solutions to the problems and quick answers to the review questions appear in the back of this book (along with an excellent, extensive glossary), but the answer key would be more helpful if it included brief discussions explaining the reasoning behind the correct answers. --David Wall
Topics covered: All proscribed elements of the CCDA exam (640-441), including the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) reference model, Ethernet, network topologies, network protocols, routing, bridging, switching, and the fundamentals of Cisco hardware and software products.
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Interested in the Cisco Certified Design Associate certification? Here's the study guide you need to prepare for it. With full coverage of each official Cisco exam objective, this study guide delivers what you need to know about network-layer addressing, filtering with access lists, using VLANs, and network sizing. You'll learn how to design routed LANs, switched LANs, and routed WANs. The CD includes test-preparation software with hundreds of practice questions.
Customer Reviews:
Good overview, missing in some spots.......2005-02-17
This book does a noble job of trying to deliver the goods. Each chapter begins with a short list of the exam objectives covered - the same objectives that come directly from Cisco's site.
Parts of the design methodology are lacking. For example, the book spends a good amount of time on the PDIOO life cycle, but is missing some interesting tweaks which Cisco adds (and tests you on). The design phase in particular really needs to be broken down further into the following steps:
1. Performing a network audit
2. Performing traffic analysis
3. Doing the actual design, which includes addressing, routing and routed protocols, etc.
4. Performing the pilot/prototye
5. Planning the implementation
6. Documenting everything, and creating the design document
You have to have all of this info to create the design document!
Other parts of the book seemed almost like a cut and paste of the Cisco exam guide, particularly the section on traditional voice technology.
Overall the book does a decent job with the material and assumes you already have a networking background. I would definitely only use this book as part of your preparation, not the sole source of it.
How to Pass CCDA.......2004-08-17
Unfortunately, this book is a miss. It missed out on too many objectives. Lammle does a great job with CCNA, and he's a terrific writer, but this book came out with too little research and too little attention to current objectives. Plus, there's a lot of obsolete material in this book.
To pass CCDA, see the article by Andy Barkl (a coauthor of the Sybex book, interestingly) at www.tcpmag.com (click on Exam Reviews and then CCDA) and peruse it. Follow the links to the Cisco site, especially the CCDA objectives and the SAFE white paper. Then buy the Cisco Press Exam Certification Guide and CCDA/CCDP flash cards, and cram/practice/cram until you have it.
Problems with the Sybex CCDA and reasons it won't be worth your time follow.
The design methology on the test is not the one taught in this book. The book teaches PDIOO; the exam is all about techical and business goals and constraints.
The Enterprise Composite Network Model (ECNM) is not covered in anywhere enough detail. The design methodologies on the exam have to do with different areas of the ECNM.
The stuff in the book on IPX, Appletalk and Token Ring are all irrelevant.
The voice section and the IPv6 sections are just cursory explanations of topics you will be tested on in some detail.
The network management and security sections are also too high level.
One good thing about this book -- the VLSM section is a good intro and covers classless addressing in enough detail. Lammle is really good at teaching this type of stuff -- his tutorial on subnetting in CCNA is just a great way to learn.
He's a master teacher, and unfortunately just got this one out the door without properly matching it to the exam objectives. Barkl, like Lammle, is also an excellent writer, and (as I said above) his writeup on www.tcpmag.com is on-the-money as to what this exam entailed, but unfortunately this book (though lucid and smartly written) isn't as faithful to the exam objectives.
Maybe they'll rev the book, but until they do, you need to stick with Cisco Press on this.
Waste of money and time.......2004-07-23
I've used the CCNP Sybex book to pass CCNP easily, I've been a Cisco engineer for 9 years and I failed a CCDA with this book.
I questioned my sanity. But sure enough the book doesn't cover the material. In fact it missses out MOST of the exam topics.
Score less than the required 825 with this book.
It's not just the books fault though. The exam is a classic Cisco foul up with answers being ambiguous as hell. A bit like the original CCNA for those that failed that one. You are not alone.
I'm off to buy the 'top down' networking manual from Cisco Press as that's what they used to write the exam. that's why Cisco don't allow you to take the exam again for 3 days, so you can realise you had the wrong study guide.
Bitter - Yes
Twisted - maybe.
Not sufficient enough to pass the exam with.......2004-06-17
This book is garbage. It doesn't come close to fulfilling the exam objectives. The test prep software is a joke. VoIP and IPv6 are severely lacking as these two subjects constituted a good chunk of the exam. Too many pages written on subjects that weren't part of the exam (the trivial introductory stuff) and not enough pages devoted to the important stuff.
This was my first certification. I posted a decent score but not enough to pass. VoIP and IPv6 hurt me. I'll never use a Sybex book as source again. The other user reviews were right; I should have listened. One more thing learned the hard way...
I'm going to try the Teare book next.
Don't touch with a barge pole. I've flushed better. Bile........2004-04-28
No stars earned here.
Over 50% of the book covers maybe 20 - 30% of the exam.
The thrust of analysis is covered by 30 - 50 pages of the book and maybe 50% of the exam; the rest of the book is introductory stuff which you'll need to understand but won't be questioned on and if it is new to you you are studying for the wrong exam - CCDA is not the start for someone new to networks. And containing the documentation in "Post Design Issues" (overly short) chapter is a basic sin my old Comp Sci professors would quite rightly have had the skin flogged off my back for.
This book introduces (some of) the tools, stops short of suggesting what to do with them then goes on about non exam related stuff - Sybex, this one is more than just a technical exam.
Am I bitter 'cos I got 80% and failed this exam on my first attempt? No, I'm bitter because I knew this book throughout and it left (for me) the main thrust of the exam unaddressed - had I used only this book I would have been lucky to get 40%.
Sybex have been known to leave books an occasional bit short, but this one is in a league of its own.
After reading DT's Cisco Press, managed a clear pass - I'm still considering giving some significant use to Todd Lammle et al and Sybex's email addresses as there are no innocent parties here.
Oh dear.
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A new series of straightforward guides setting forth the laws most relevant to mental health practice in each state. This series arose from the author's experience teaching psychiatric residents, psychology interns, and social work students at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Consistently, trainees mentioned how helpful it was to have laws relevant to their clinical practice explained in a way that removed the mystery and anxiety they associated with lawyers, courts, and judges. Each volume in the series sets forth, in a clear, straightforward, and user-friendly manner, pertinent legislation and court cases, covering why the law was written, what the law says, and how the law affects clinical practice. This volume covers the statutes and court cases of California.
Customer Reviews:
Outstanding coverage, best prep for CJPEE.......2005-08-31
This text clearly and concisely covers the most critical and challenging aspects of California mental health law. No legalese or unusual jargon, just common sense answers to your most frequently asked questions. I used this text to prepare for the CJPEE and I could not recommend it more highly. It's an interesting read and very helpful to the practicing therapist.
Comment.......2005-07-25
This book is a detailed guide to the Mental Health Law of California. It elaborates in lucid fashion the details of the law including the role and responsibilities of physicians for commitment of the mentally ill. It makes clear the situations where the physician can and cannot act.
It is a useful resource for physicians and mental health workers who care for patients IN CALIFORNIA.
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Why is this book called "3D Cheats"? Unlike committed 3D applications (like Maya, 3D Studio Max, Swift 3D), Flash MX doesn’t have an internal 3D engine, and therefore if a designer wants include realistic 3D effects in their Flash designs they must either import from one of these other 3D applications (can be complex, expensive, and time-consuming), or rely on "pseudo-3D" effects – 2D graphics rendered to mimic realistic 3D imagery. This book teaches users how to employ 3D principles without having to learn the official names for everything. Digital 3D is a tricky area – and until the day someone makes 3D TV commercially viable, it’s going to remain a tricky area. What is 3D? Can you genuinely render 3D on a flat screen? Do you have to spend a year’s wages to get a dedicated piece of 3D software? Do you have to conjure up a bunch of complex math techniques to make the grade? Is anyone going to answer these interminable questions? Well, listen: we’re not out to work ourselves into the ground here. We want 3D and we want it fast, and we want to use Flash to get it. In a series of clear and concise demonstrations, this book shows you exactly what can be achieved in Web 3D. Some of the most cunning designers around have put their heads together to present these: the most wanted 3D cheats in Flash.
This book will show you that you can:
- Lie your way into 3D with simple drawing techniques.
- Cheat a 3D interface with cunning use of light and shadow.
- Fool Flash into thinking it can render genuine 3D, and con the Internet into delivering it for us in double-quick time.
- Hoodwink visitors into thinking they’re witnessing focus and depth of field.
- Improve your depth of deception with an innovative slice engine to create convincing 3D objects.
- Trick users into thinking they’re moving through a 3D space.
Customer Reviews:
I'm lovin it!.......2007-01-24
I didnt buy this book to learn about flash coding, or web development. I bought this book because I am interested in Software rendered graphics. That is, applications that dont utalize OpenGL or Direct 3D for rendering to the screen. I bought this book for the techniques it discusses in "faking" 3d, and also producing real 3d. So far it has done a perfect job in giving me ideas and techniques that I can use in my applications. For anybody interested in producing anything that is real time, and 3d, I would reccomend this book.
A work of art! Opens all new possibilities to script builders.......2005-09-12
This is the best book I have read in years! If you know the basics of ActionScript and you know sine and cosine, this book opens up whole dimensions of possibilities for both games and business applications of Flash.
It is clearly written and reads more smoothly than most programming books. While it does assume a basic literacy with ActionScript, it does not leave you flailing with complex 3D concepts. You may have to pull out your definitions of sine and cosine, but beyond that, it is pretty light lifting.
The genious of the book is that it violates commmon assumptions, and this results in simple, elegant techniques that are also powerful for a wide range of problems. The common assumption is that Flash doesn't do 3D. Don't believe it anymore. If you are willing to use some basic limitations to your application (such as keeping your polygon count down), you can have some smoothly flowing, useful 3D applications with relatively little effort. And unless I'm mistaken, those applications will run equally well on a browser running on a Mac, Windows or Linux.
The solutions are simple and eclectic. The authors have created a variety of 3D engines - each optimized for a given purpose. The engines are simple enough that (in theory) you can take the source and enhance it to your needs. Each technique is backed up by source code that you can download from the publisher's web site. But don't shortchange yourself with only the sample code - the explanations in the text are worth the cost of the paper book.
Here are my favorite techniques:
* ch 8 (P 195) - Drawing API and Math for 3D - here they explain and provide a working polygon 3D engine. The demos work smoothly (at least 20-30 frames per second) on my cheap Dell laptop. The demos include a oragami bird and a rocket ship with at least 10-20 polgons each. It doesn't support bitmapped textures, but it does offer fill color and shading support.
* ch 9 - 3D Slice Engine - this is the more clever, powerful and non-obvious technique of the book. Check out "dad.swf" in the binary samples from the web site to get an idea of the power of this approach - the author has made a 3D talking head of his father from a photograph! The idea here is that if you can view your 3D world as a topographical map, then you can model it with a set of parallel planes, where each plane represents a certain cut through the entire 3D model. This approach, though not immediately intuitive, is extremely powerful in Flash because it plays on the strenghths of Flash. Each plane is represented by two "movieclip" objects, with one embedded in the other. The first one handles scaling, and the second handles rotation, within the scaled clip. The hidden surface problem is finessed because the planes are parallel - so you only reverse the rendering order once every 180 degrees of change in viewer angle. This enables you to handle full bitmap detail of your scenes, and the result is pretty dazzling! The basic rendering engine requires only about 50 lines of ActionScript!
* Ch 6 - Parallax Scrolling - This name is misleading - it really goes beyond a scrolling 2D game model. In the Wyvern's Claw" example, it explores the idea of building a 3D world like a movie set - with a set of strategically placed flat surfaces (like the fronts of buildings in the studio sets). Each surface is a movieclip, and your script manages the proper scaling and shading as the viewer moves through. The demo then shows an animated walk-through of a small town rendering in such a way. This seems very cool for a potential game.
I'm already using the Chapter 9 slice engine for a work-related project - multidimensional data browsing. So for me, the book was not only stimulating to read but valuable!
Trigonometry background required in some chapters.......2005-02-23
TOC:
Chapter 1 Introduction to Flash 3D
Chapter 2 Light and Shadow
Chapter 3 Scaling for 3D
Chapter 4 Isometric 3D
Chapter 5 Focus and Depth of Field
Chapter 6 Parallax Scrolling
Chapter 7 Text Effects in 3D Space
Chapter 8 Drawing API and Math for 3D
Chapter 9 3D Slice Engine
Chapter 10 Departure Lounge: Moving beyond Flash 3D
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 10 don't require a trigonometry
background. One of Chapter 6 topics uses XML though.
The best chapters for me were 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6.
I gave the book 5 stars because it has something for everyone.
Some people use Flash to create digital art while others use it
for practical purposes. This book delivers to both people.
Unfortunately, I belong to the latter kind and some of the topics
aren't for me.
I also think that some chapters are impractical unless you're
really a math geek. For example, I think Chapter 8 - Drawing
API and Math for 3D -- is unnecessary because you can import
Swift 3D files.
Some of the authors also show you Actionscript without really
explaining what it does (I think they assume you do know trig).
I work for a software engineering firm (not as an engineer
though) but I do know that it's bad practice to embed magic
numbers -- literals that don't have apparent meaning -- in
any code. It's better to put them in constants.
One of the authors (the Chapter 4 author I think) said to get
a good book on trigo. I don't think I will because there are
plenty of free trigo tutorials on the web. I agree though that
to get the most out of Flash and this book, learning trigo is a
must.
Good golly.......2003-12-02
This has to be about the best book I have ever seen. The 3D cheats in it are amazing -- and you surely wouldn't know you were cheating. There are some incredibly insightful techniques, and some more staple things if you're not quite steady on your feet yet.
I think I am, but this book showed me how much more there was to know!
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This text presents a survey of the physical sciences—physics, chemistry, astronomy, meteorology, and geology—for non-science majors. Topics are treated both descriptively and quantitatively, providing flexibility for instructors who wish to emphasize a highly descriptive approach, a highly quantitative approach, or any spectrum in between.
Concepts to be treated mathematically are consistently introduced from three perspectives. First, the concept is defined in words, as briefly as possible. Second, the definition is presented as an equation in word form. Finally, the concept is expressed in symbol notation.
- A new interior design enhances the book's pedagogical features and organizational structure, making the material more accessible to both students and instructors.
- End-of-chapter "On the Web" exercises require students to use Internet resources to explore topics, review concepts, and solve problems.
- Supplementary PowerPoint slides containing a wealth of photographs and all the line art from the text enhance classroom instruction.
- Chapter 18, "The Universe," has been completely revised to incorporate new material.
- "Learning Goals" provide a focus and framework for each section.
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- "Highlights" have been updated to include topics such as nanotechnology, disposal of nuclear waste, the use of hydrogen in transportation, and earthquake risk in the United States.
Customer Reviews:
An Excellent Survey, But Necessarily Superficial.......2002-05-06
This wonderful little book presents a superficial (if you want string theory or statistical mechanics, look elsewhere) survey of an interesting selection of topics that should interest any curious student, even one considering a career in a "hard" science. It should present no great challenge to the sudent with a year or two of algebra; this is not to imply that the approach is mathematical - it isn't. However, some very basic math is necessary in any book of this kind. This kind of overview should also be useful for the high school or junior college student who wants to know something about the nuts-and-bolts of various careers in the physical sciences: physicist, geologist, chemist, physiologist/biophysicist, biochemist, molecular biologist, astronomer, etc. Even the non-scientist layperson wants to know how and why batteries work, the phases of the moon and tidal influences, and, for just one more example, why nuclear bombs go BOOM in such a big way. The graphs are simple, and clearly labeled, there are many illustrations and photographs, and the authors seem to have tried to avoid "Dick and Jane" demonstrations of principles. If you are curious about the functioning of our universe and the world around you - and want a pleasant introduction to some of the particulars of that world, you will be impressed with the successful treatment shown in this book. I highly recommend it.
Physical Science.......2000-11-28
This is a interesting book. I am currently enrolled in this class. I am not doing so well in it. It is sort of complicated because the teacher teaches from another book. I would like the instructors to recieve some guidelines according to how the lessons are to be reviewed and the tests should be given from the book instead of tests from other universities with different books and notes.
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SQL Server Reporting Services is the customizable reporting solution for report designers and programmers. This hands-on guide will get you up to speed quickly. You can create powerful reports without programming knowledge and extend reporting solutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET.
Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions, and developing deployment strategies for interacting with various platforms, this book prepares you to take full advantage of a revolutionary new tool.
What does this book cover?
Here are just some of the things you'll learn in this book:
- Details of programming reports and report scripting
- Advanced report design, including drill-down reports, nested lists, drill-through, links, and dynamic content
- How to manage reports using Report Manager or program code
- High-level strategies for business support systems
- Rendering reports using .NET code, .NET IO namespace classes, and URL rendering
- Deployment strategies to handle hardware, software, and platform considerations, licensing issues, and scaling options
Who is this book for?
This book is for developers and report designers using VB, C#, and ASP.NET who need to tie into SQL Server to build customized reports or to integrate reports into Windows or Web-based applications.
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What is this book about?
Professional SQL Server Reporting Services can be used by C#, VB, and ASP.NET developers, as well as SQL Server developers who are looking to develop customizable reports for the end user. Professional SQL Server Reporting Services is filled with detailed examples on building reports and designing report solutions, as well as hands-on deployment strategies for interacting with a variety of platforms.
What does this book cover?
This book covers all of the fundamentals of working with Reporting Services. It begins by explaining reporting services architecture and business intelligence. You learn the fundamentals of designing reports and planning considerations, and then move on to advanced report design and filtering techniques. The book also includes saving, retrieving, and rendering reports.
You will discover the specifics of the following:
- Programming reports
- Reporting service namespaces and the object model
- Report scripting
- Rendering scenarios
- Consuming and providing data in the .NET framework
- Browser compatibility considerations
- Designing reporting solutions and deployment strategies
Customer Reviews:
Good book despite technical inaccuracies and typos.......2006-04-03
I like Wrox books in general and this book has helped me learned SQL Reporting Services (I had no prior knowledge of SRS). I did find some errors in their examples that wasted valuable time for me. MAKE SURE you check out Wrox's errata page for this book before working through the examples: [...]. The numerous typos detract from the professional feel of the book. Until a second edition comes out you may want to consider "Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services".
This one is just right!.......2004-12-03
I have looked over a number of books about SQL Server Reporting Services (RS), and after comparing them decided that this one is best for my needs.
The book starts with a clear overview of just what RS is, what its components are, and how they work together. This seems to be the part that many other books just miss. Other books seem to get caught up in the hype but fail to deliver a direct, no-frills or buzzwords, account of the actual architecture.
I also like that the books assumes that the reader already knows SQL, .NET programming (although you don't have to be a professional to understand their examples), and SQL Server. This enables them to avoid repeating material which is better covered on other books, and allows them to focus on explaining just what Reporting Services can do, and lets the reader get started using RS right away.
My one beef is that their code examples are in both VB.NET and C#, which takes up unnecessary space in the text. But that's a minor complaint when they otherwise do a great job explaining this fascinating and powerful product.
Good start but lacking on advanced report design.......2004-11-11
With this book you will be able to set up and run Reporting Services, however, if you are looking for something that details advanced report design (e.g. anything more than simply bound table data) then this is not the book for you. In fact I don't know what would be the book for you. I'm still looking.
BI Consultant's review.......2004-11-04
This book does an excellent, thorough job of introducing the product (which is awesome!), and then going all the way through to advanced coding & custom manipulation. The authors have clearly presented the material in a comfortable style, while remaining seriously technical. As a consultant, seminar presenter, and MS2030 trainer, I use this book extensively as a reference as well as a recomendation. My background includes over 10 years of varied development, & reporting.
The title should be "How to Frustrate Readers".......2004-10-30
The amount of errors in this book is pathetic... obviously the pressures of publishing early is as great as the pressure to release software before it's ready.
Customer Reviews:
Essential book.......2002-08-16
MANAGING PUBLIC RELATIONS by James E. Grunig and Todd T. Hunt is a must-have for PR students and professionals. Almost all PR books use it as a reference and discuss its contents, mainly the four PR-models defined by Grunig. This is a book that will never get old.
Sts. James and Todd.......2002-04-20
Those of us in this business can't live or work without this watershed book. It's a timeless classic that I turn to constantly as a PR practitioner.
There's nothing these guys haven't thought about or anticipated. They make your life easier because they actually tell you things you don't want to read or hear.
If you absorb this book, you're some way along in handling any PR situation that comes your way.
Great Little Textbook for PR Students.......2001-02-07
O.K. the book may not be that little, but is an excellent resource for beginning PR students and professionals. It covers all the basicis from a definition of PR to how to do PR well to how to perform the nuts & bolts tasks of PR. It is also very readable. It may not be a cuddle-up-in-bed book, but it does the job in a much less painful way than most textbooks! (P.S. Grunig is an excellent teacher and explains PR concepts in an approachable manner.)
Book Description
Advanced PHP for Flash is the follow-up to the hugely popular Foundation PHP for Flash.
The main aim of this book is to extend the reader's knowledge of using PHP and MySQL to produce dynamic content for Flash. Essentially, it picks up the baton from the first book and runs with it until there's no more road.
The book takes the reader from being an intermediate to an advanced PHP/Flash developer, and to help them create some awesome Flash-based web applications along the way. It covers the core PHP features, as well as some exciting extras, that follow on directly from the knowledge gained in the first chapter, and show the reader how to use them in real-world applications.
This book covers:
- Sessions
- File Uploading
- Advanced MySQL
- Socket Functions
- PHP and XML
- Ming
- Plus fully functional case studies
Customer Reviews:
[bad] :(.......2003-04-17
... the scripts don't work. The downloaded scripts are different to the ones outlined in the book (neither work) and the after sale support is non-existant.
The first book of the series was great... This rarely works and this book is no exception...
Increase Your Flash Application Skills.......2003-03-21
Flash is becoming much more of an application/interface tool than ever before. This book does a good job of furthering the skills taught in the first book. While the book doesn't follow with a case study pertaining to all chapters, it does give you methods that you can pick and choose from, so that you don't necessarily need to read from beginning to end to get real and usable benefits.
I particulary enjoyed Chatper 5, which shows some very good ways of using MySQL with Flash: getting lists, details, and searching without having to load new pages or go back to previous pages...that's the good thing about Flash interfaces.
The book is a rather big step in difficulty from the first book, but worth it.
leave this book on the shelf = save yourself the frustration.......2002-12-27
1. too many errors
2. the codes don't work.. and you don't get support from the team that put them together... you will have to be overly nice to even here... "Oh! we will get back to you" from them
3. Full e-commerce app? what is an e-commerce system without a checkout feature? they basically leave out all the meat and expect you to work at the same projects you bought the book for on your own
basically, looks more like a couple of tutorials taken from the internet and thrown together in the form of a book in a hurry to capture the market before a better one does.
LEAVE IT ON THE SHELF!!
Good.......2002-12-07
The book is good, but I think it is a little limited because it is a succession of cases, which do not correlate. Yoyr skills may be improved but not your knowledge. It is like learning a formula with the numbers already filled in , but not the formula with its symbols.
Taking PHP and Flash into Deeper Waters.......2002-11-13
I bought this book after working with and really appreciating the first book in this line - Foundation PHP for Flash. The first book was extremely helpful in building a foundation in working with Flash > PHP > database applications.
This advanced book takes many of the concepts of the first book into deeper application and shows how to work XML into the equation as well in one of my favorite chapters PHP & XML. I can't give a higher recommendation regarding the helpfulness of these books. Well done and thanks!
Product Description
Written in a straightforward, clearly structured manor with extensive use of worked examples, this easy to use book gives you an explanation of both basic and advanced principles for the valuation of interest rate derivatives and their hedging applications. Interest Rate Derivatives describes: Pricing methods, Application, structuring and valuation of: o Interest rate and Cross currency Swap and o Interest Options Methods of managing interest rate exposure and Trading and hedging strategies and their application in portfolio management. Basic interest rate mathematics are explored and built upon to delve into a more complex development of interest rate derivatives in general. This work is accompanied by a CD and gives you a unique stand-alone product which serves as a major reference guide on interest rate derivatives. The book itself is developed around a user-friendly excel based pricing system helping you to better understand the content by applying the theory to real life pricing. This allows you to use the book as an initial reference or learning tool to see how the maths work and leaves you with a practical calculation tool. We recommend this book for all financial and corporate treasury staff, MBA students, graduates and anyone looking for a mathematical guide to the practical pricing and modelling of interest rate derivatives.
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