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Jason Thomas Posted 24 Days ago through Blogs | 10 Points
10 days back, I was attending the speaker dinner for SQL Saturday Atlanta when I got a mail with the subject line - PASS Summit 2013 - Call for Speakers Results. Speaking at the PASS Summit was one of my goals for this year and I had submitted three abs...
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Jason Thomas Posted 1 Months ago through Blogs | 10 Points
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...
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Jason Thomas Posted 3 Months ago through Blogs | 10 Points
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 ...
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Jason Thomas Posted 3 Months ago through Blogs | 10 Points
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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Jason Thomas Posted 4 Months ago through Blogs | 10 Points
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...
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Jason Thomas Posted 4 Months ago through Blogs | 10 Points
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...
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Jason Thomas Posted 4 Months ago through Blogs | 10 Points
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 ...
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Jason Thomas Posted 5 Months ago through Blogs | 10 Points
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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Jason Thomas Commented 5 Months ago through Blogs | 1 Point
Thanks Madhivanan and Paras :)...
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