1. Tips and Tricks for Building Rich Reports in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Bob Meyers Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation DBI307

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6. Microsoft tablix = table rows columns row row group

7. Microsoft tablix = table

8. building a table demo

9. Microsoft tablix = table

10. Microsoft tablix = table + matrix row group row column column group

11. Microsoft tablix = table + matrix ++ column column group column

12. demo building a matrix

14. Microsoft emphasize data

15. Microsoft emphasize data thin font space, not lines dim labels 1 accent color no fluff

16. Microsoft emphasize data visualize rules simple icons

17. Microsoft emphasize data http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bobmeyers/archive/2009/07/31/add-excel-like-color-scale-conditional-formatting-to-your-reports.aspx color scales small area =Code.ColorScaleRYG(dataValue, 0.8, 1.0)

18. Microsoft emphasize data

19. Microsoft emphasize data

20. Microsoft emphasize data color scales small area lighter fills darker lines/text 98.7%

21. Microsoft emphasize data time = sparkline simple colors expandable align axes?

22. Microsoft emphasize data data bars use color align axis

23. Microsoft emphasize data sparkpies? simple colors 12:00

24. Microsoft emphasize data cards use a picture butterfly align space between 1 accent hue

25. Microsoft emphasize data cards use a picture butterfly align 1 accent hue

26. demo emphasize data

28. Microsoft the right visual make your tables pop

29. Microsoft the right visual use bars for categories

30. Microsoft the right visual use lines for sequence

31. Microsoft the right visual consider sparklines instead of series

32. Microsoft the right visual use a scatter chart for correlation

35. Microsoft clipboard data ?

36. Microsoft clipboard data …

37. Microsoft clipboard data

38. Microsoft related data =Lookup(thisfield, otherField, returnField, datasetName) dataset 2dataset 1

39. Microsoft short lists =Code.JoinSorted(...) =Join(LookupSet(thisfield, otherField, returnField, datasetName), delimiter) =Code.JoinDistinctSorted(...) *NOTE: matches one field only – no group context or filters

40. Microsoft output to Excel

41. Microsoft output to Excel

43. Microsoft output to Excel

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