It’s been more than a month since the last post and you might be wondering – what’s up with SqlJason? Well, let me tell you that the last one month has been really busy and I thought of filling you guys in with some of the juicy stuff that’s been happen...

Data Explorer is generating a lot of positive buzz within the community and everyone I speak to seems to be really excited about this. (If you are wondering what Data Explorer is, you might want to quickly catch up on my previous post - Introduction to ...

Recently, Bill Jelen aka Mr Excel came up with a podcast that showcased a visualization that he termed as the “100% Visualization”. I have never seen this visualization before and I am not sure whether Stephen Few would approve of it. But I found the co...

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Sometime in January, visualization expert Stephen Few expanded on Tufte’s idea of Sparklines and came up with this new visualization called Bandlines. Bandlines use horizontal bands of color in the background of the plot area to display information abou...

Throughout my career as a Business Intelligence Consultant, I have met and interacted with a lot of DBAs. One thing (among many others) I particularly admire about them is that they have their own list of SQL scripts that they carry with them from job t...

This is not possible within SSRS. However, you might be able to do that if you use asp.net and then embed the ssrs report using the reportviewer class...

In one of my previous posts - Row Selection Using Slicers in PowerPivot - Part 1, I had demonstrated the use of what Marco Russo defined as Reverse Linked Tables and Linkback tables. A particularly eye-catching thing in my post was the use of Microsoft ...

Sometime during the last month, I saw an image of an Archimedean Spiral and was wondering whether I could recreate the same in SSRS. The Archimedean Spiral is actually a scatter line chart (a combination of scatter chart and line chart). I have over 6+ ...

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