Good Book for SQL Server Reporting Services

• maria.lindquist

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  June 27, 2017 at 7:33 am

  #343353

  I started reading some online books through a trial service. Is there any books on SSRS that anyone would recommend? Has anyone read SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook? Is that good or are there others that would be better?

• Alan Burstein

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  June 27, 2017 at 7:53 am

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  I dont know of any great SSRS books but The Microsoft Press book, SSRS Reporting services is fine. For me SSRS is the kind of thing I learn more by playing around with it.

  "I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

  -- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001

• pietlinden

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  June 27, 2017 at 10:54 am

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  Haven't seen the book yet. I went to Robert Cain's presentation on SSRS 2016 at SQL Saturday DC and he covered some of the stuff in the book. He knows his stuff. I would read the reviews on Amazon maybe and read the sample chapter(s) and the table of contents to see if it suits you.