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SQL Reporting "How to" series on custom colouration
(2/17/2009)
Ever been asked to spruce up existing reports or get a bit more "creative" with the reports you're writing?
Well, help is at hand, David Lean has just published a 4 part series on how to do just that...
David Lean has just released a brilliant "How to" series of blog posts, showing how flexible SQL Reporting really is through colour customisation.
It's a 4 part series, giving you a good idea on how to "spruce up" reports with conditional and customised colouration both for tabular data reports and charts.
Links to the series:
Part 1 - Conditional Color The Basics. Report Expressions & Custom Code
Part 2 - Conditional Color for Tables & Charts.
Part 3 - Continuous Color functions – Color Saturation
Part 4 - Continuous Color functions for Multi-Dimensional analysis (in charts)
About Dave
For nearly 2 decades, David Lean has been working at Microsoft, in roles like Consultant Lecturer, Principal Technology Specialist & Data Platform Advisor. Throughout that time SQL Server has been a core focus area.
He is part of a SQL Insiders group, they are the "Voice of the customer" that works closely with senior management in the Engineering & Marketing teams of SQL, BI & Office helping to plan future products & offerings
Day to day finds him helping customers & partners with troubleshooting, performance tuning, & discussing architecture. And with software developers (ISV's) helping them design their apps to take full advantage of our platform.
Prior to Microsoft David spent 6 years as a Systems Engineer installing & tuning Mainframe Systems (MVS and Unix).
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