Charts and graphs are an increasingly important component of reporting. They convey information in just a glance, with a simple picture. It is likely you will be asked to create many reports with graphs, combining them to create dashboards.
In this section, we'll start with a simple graph to convey sales month by month based on the invoice date.
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database, the data will be coming from the sales table. The report will display the total, including tax, summed up by invoice month/year and then charted. We'll start with the following query:
SELECT s.[Invoice Date Key] , SUM(s.[Total Including Tax]) AS TotalSalesWithTax FROM [Fact].[Sale] s GROUP BY s.[Invoice Date Key]