StreamInsight: A new way to think about analyzing data
Last night’s Oregon SQL user
group meeting was very enlightening. Mark Simms form the SQLCAT team came
down from Redmond to talk...
2011-02-11
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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
665 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
774 reads
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
707 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
946 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
1,448 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
968 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
434 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
650 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
532 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Can You Let Go of Determinism
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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