Why Do All Funnel Charts Look The Same?
Something recently occurred to me. I’ve been researching chart and dashboard
design standards for an article I’m working on, and the...
2011-01-12
675 reads
SQL Server BI Blog
What’s Going On at Microsoft?
Last week Donald
Farmer announced that he was leaving his long-time position as Microsoft’s lead
BI technology evangelist for QlikTech, a small...
2011-01-11
710 reads
Rich Embedded Text Formatting in Reports
I’ve recently come to realize what a truly remarkable feature it is to be able to
format report text using simple...
2011-01-11
780 reads
Building Reports and Analytics on Dynamics CRM – Lessons (Being) Learned
In concept, designing reports is such a simple thing… you connect to a data source,
write a SQL query, optimize the...
2011-01-05
954 reads
Blogging on Blogging
So I must confess that my blogging efforts to date have been on the impersonal side
– perhaps even a bit...
2010-12-31
1,467 reads
Happy Holidays
I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. To everyone in the SQL Server community,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Spend...
2010-12-27
975 reads
Dashboard and KPI Design–the Definitive Industry Standard
First of all, the title is intended to be
a little tongue-in-cheek – just a little bit. I’ll explain. Last week
while I...
2010-12-15
440 reads
Preventing Subscriptions from Blocking Interactive Report Executions
A consulting client recently asked how they could resolve a capacity-planning issue
on their production report server. They manage a busy...
2010-12-15
660 reads
Are You Ready to Move to SharePoint for Microsoft BI?
I’m interested in hearing your response to this question. Microsoft is investing
aggressively in delivering Business Intelligence as a holistic platform...
2010-11-24
538 reads
Self-service Reporting in SQL Server “Denali”
Project “Crescent” is the name currently used to describe the new self-service reporting
capability to be released in the next version...
2010-11-14
617 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
Forums
Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Risk Vs Reward, The never...
Trigger isn't working
Hi, I have a trigger, that works fine elsewhere but is not working at...
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Hyperscale Replicas IV
In Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many geo-replicas can be created?
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