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Chapter: SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Course: SQL Server 2012 - A Comprehensive Introduction Course ID: 170 Instructor: Scott Whigham

Chapter 17: Video # 2

What Types of Reports Can You Create?

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Remember that dashboard your execs wanted?

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That dashboard was pretty sophisticated

– Sparklines are “word-sized charts” that can fit into small, word-size spaces

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Sparklines are great for high-level metrics

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Line charts are bigger and offer more context than sparklines

– Ideal for showing trends, history

– Best used for time series and sequences

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Line charts can be big or small

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Bar charts are great for comparing data points

– Line charts are great for trend spotting

– Bar charts are visually better for direct comparisons and proportion

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Data bars are little, bitty bar charts embedded within the row

– We could have made a “full blown” bar chart also

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Gauges are visual analogies

– Great for showing progress

– Two types:

• Radial

• Linear

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Indicators are inline gauges

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Maps are awesomeness, pure and simple

– Can show shapes, or shapes with satellite image overlays, or just satellite images

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Pie and doughnut charts are great for showing proportion

– A doughnut chart is just a pie chart with a hole in the middle!

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Shape charts are another handy way to show proportion

– Funnel and pyramid charts are popular choices

– You can define colors, 3D, more

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Area charts are great for showing trends

– Displays data contiguously along the X axis (or “category axis”)

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Range charts are similar but have two values (the “range”)

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Stock charts are useful when you have multiple values per data point

– A stock may have an opening price, min price, max price, and average price

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Tables are included in many reports to provide additional context or information relevant to other charts/graphs in the report

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In the next video…

–Report Authoring Tools: Report Builder and SQL Server Data Tools

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his

difficulties.”

- Harry S. Truman