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
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
707 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
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
433 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
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
612 reads
Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Forums
SSMS 22 Latest Update Crashing
Hi all, I've just had to roll back my SSMS 22 version from 22.3.0,...
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Power of Data and...
Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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