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
661 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
700 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
760 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
942 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
1,444 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
962 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
427 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
644 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
528 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
609 reads
Blogs
Build a Dockerized Todo List RESTful API in C# with GitHub Actions and Azure Container App: A…
Build a Dockerized Todo List RESTful API in C# with GitHub Actions and Azure...
Cyber Scams and Operation Shamrock
By Brian Kelley
Erin West gave the keynote for the 2025 Techno Security & Digital Forensics East...
The Book of Redgate: Ingeniously Simple
By Steve Jones
Redgate has been known for many useful tools that are easy to use. We’ve...
Forums
BULK INSERT messing up import of CSV file with a comma in it
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Users Default Schema in a stored procedure.
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Calculating Difference between Multiple Dates for a Given Condition in HH:MM:SS
We have the following requirement:- Event_Time ...
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