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Understanding Security

It is important for data professionals to understand security, but it's also important for end users that must handle data. However we have a lot of work to do to make that easier since Steve Jones thinks many IT pros struggle with this concept.

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Etiquette

As technology has rapidly advanced our communications, we have not necessarily learned to deal with the implications and challenges of this anywhere, anytime communication reach. Steve Jones reminds us that etiquette matters, even when we are designing systems.

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Cloud Outages

It seems that we regularly hear about outages from various cloud services. Steve Jones comments that we are likely to have this happen more and more, but it's shouldn't happen at a rate greater than in house IT services.

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Creating a Reporting Services Histogram Chart for Statistical Distribution Analysis

Typically transactional data is quite detailed and analyzing an entire dataset on a graph is not feasible. Generally such data is analyzed using some form of aggregation or frequency distribution. One of the specialized charts generally used in Reporting Services for statistical distribution is Histogram Charts. In this tip we look at how Histogram Charts can be used for statistical distribution analysis and how to create and configure this type of chart in SSRS.

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