Tag Archives: Reporting Services

The Pyramid of Data

Posted on November 26, 2019 by

Data is an important part of our world, and arguably the most important asset in computing. All the rest of the devices, platforms, and technologies we use are designed to work with data, by manipulating, storing, accessing, and presenting data … Continue reading →

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Data Science, BI, and Reports

Posted on November 14, 2019 by

Data science, along with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) fields, is often seen as the new direction in which we ought to move our analysis of all the bits and bytes that we collect and store in … Continue reading →

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Large Chunks of Data

Posted on April 3, 2015 by

This editorial was originally published on Sept 17, 2010. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. I saw a post recently where someone talked about trying to get better performance from a report. They were selecting 5mm rows … Continue reading →

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Reporting on Data

Posted on July 9, 2013 by

I would think that most DBAs and SQL developers out there realize they need to understand some basic statistics and mathematics to write meaningful reports for their customers. Since many of us write our reports in T-SQL, if we correctly … Continue reading →

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