Many data analysts will be familiar with exploring data using Pivot Tables in Excel workbooks. The following example shows the detail sales data for bike related products, and an Excel Pivot Table created from that data:
The Totaldue values are grouped by Quarter and product.
If the report has headers, footers or textboxes then there may be some output produced when the report is run to make it obvious that there is no valid data for the report, as in the following example:
There is a feature in Access, which allows you to use a form to front end your database. This blog will help you create a basic form and then set this form to be open, when you load the database.
If you didn’t catch part one, click here.
In this blog we will explore other methods of selecting cells and ranges of cells.
Have you ever needed to work out the difference between two dates? DateDif allows you to do this, and show the result in Days, Months, Years, Month Days or Year Months.
Report Builder implements the same Report Designer that is provided by SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) development tool.
There are occasions when you can’t quite find the shape you’re looking for. With the Merge Shape tools, you are able to construct your own shapes. This blog will take you through the steps to creating your own shapes using the Union command from the Merge Shape Tools.
Using a form for data entry is an excellent way to control what you allow a user to select and where you want them to type. Forms look professional, and have the ability to save the entered data as a text file. This data can then be easily imported into excel for data analysis.
Many SQL Server performance problems will come down to poor physical disk performance or inadequate memory resource. This article takes a look at the Buffer Cache and some of the tools that we have for troubleshooting poorly performing SQL Server instances and queries.
Throughout this article we will meet a number of Dynamic Management Views, Functions and System Views:
UNIX is a multi-user, multi-tasking Network Operating System.
UNIX was first developed in 1969 by AT&T for a DEC PDP platform and throughout the 80s was ported to many different hardware platforms, made possible through licenses to the source code. AT&T also made their source code available to some US universities, one of which was Berkeley University, and they developed their instances of UNIX.
By the mid 80s there were two main variants of UNIX source code available to computer manufacturers:
