Pie Charts in Reporting Services
Reporting Services is one of the hottest new tools that adds on to SQL Server. William Pearson continues his series on this new product with a look at how to add pie charts to your report.
2004-09-07
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Additional Articles
Schemas in ADO.NET 2.0
When you decide on a connection string and add a Data Connection, each Data Connection also displays a tree of information about the database objects (like tables, views, and stored procedures) visible directly through the connection. But where does this information come from? Read this article from MSDN on the new features of ADO.NET.
2004-09-06
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Troubleshooting and Debugging SQL Web Services Configurations
A Q&A look at the new Web Services configurations in SQL Server 2005.
2004-09-02
3,099 reads
The Daily Database Build
From SQLTeam's Bill Granazio, a look at how he ensures his database scripts are always working.
2004-09-01
806 reads
DataSet Server CE: Database Connectivity for Windows Mobile-Based Devi
A short tutorial on building database back-ended applications with SQL Server and CE. If you're looking to build mobile apps, this is a good place to start.
2004-08-31
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MDX in Analysis Services: Mastering Time: Introduction to Moving Avera
In this article, we will examine "rolling average" aggregations, a common business requirement. "Rolling," or "moving," averages, involve a measure, the average under consideration, that is aggregated over a progressively moving window of time periods.
2004-08-27
1,555 reads
MDX in Analysis Services: Mastering Time: Period - to - Date Aggregati
In this article, we began with a discussion of general business needs as related to the concept of relative time. We then undertook a practical, multi-step exercise, based upon a hypothetical business need, to illustrate a potential solution for a stated requirement.
2004-08-26
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MDX in Analysis Services: Mastering Time: Change across Periods
In this article and others subsequent to it, we will focus on time considerations in our MDX queries., and how we can successfully report change over time, as well as to accumulate those changes to present the precise snapshots, trends and other time-based metrics so dearly appreciated in business.
2004-08-25
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2004-08-20
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Notification Services in SQL Server 2005
Notification Services is one of the features included in SQL Server 2005. As the name implies, Notification Services are services which send notifications to the interested entities based on what they would like be notified on. In this article you will see how to implement Notification Services in SQL Server 2005
2004-08-20
2,803 reads
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