September 2010
Beginner to intermediate
424 pages
12h 17m
English
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Knight's Microsoft® Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer: Leveraging Microsoft SQL Server® Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services with Excel® and SharePoint®
by Brian Knight, Devin Knight, Adam Jorgensen, Patrick LeBlanc, Mike Davis
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New Reporting Services
Visualizations — Sparklines,
Data Bars, and Indicators
SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services (SSRS) includes many new visualization components.
These components will help you display your data in a more appealing and graphical manner.
Sparklines and data bars, two of the new components, provide in-row graphical depiction of
the data. These require very little space, which allows them to fit in line with the data. You
can offer your end users row-by-row visualizations of their data, allowing them to identify any
inconsistencies or common trends quickly.
Other new features of SSRS 2008 R2 are indicators. Indicators are typically used to represent
a single data value quickly. SSRS provides several different icons that can be used as indicators.
These indicators can show how sales are trending through the use of the up, flat, and down
trending arrows. They can also represent whether or not certain conditions are met.
ADDING SPARKLINES
Sparklines, although very similar to data bars (which we discuss later in this lesson) with regard
to their configuration, have one very distinguishing characteristic. They can be placed only in
a cell that is associated with an aggregation or grouping. Since sparklines represent aggregates
they cannot be added to a detail row in a table. When placed, they represent each value in the
corresponding line. As a result, a data point for e ...
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