Lary shared this poor (wo)man’s graph with me today, and I thought it was pretty awesome:
Select OrderDate , COUNT(*) As 'orders' , REPLICATE('=', COUNT(*)) As 'orderGraph' , SUM(TotalDue) As 'revenue' , REPLICATE('$', SUM(TotalDue)/1000) As 'revenueGraph' From AdventureWorks.Sales.SalesOrderHeader Where OrderDate Between '2003-07-15' And '2003-07-31' Group By OrderDate Order By OrderDate; |
This will return a simple but effective “graph” for you:
orderDate orders orderGraph revenue revenueGraph ---------- ------ ------------------------------ -------- ---------------------------------------- 2003-07-15 19 =================== 34025.24 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-16 14 ============== 26687.65 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-17 16 ================ 32411.93 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-18 9 ========= 18634.91 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-19 13 ============= 19603.23 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-20 24 ======================== 47522.80 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-21 9 ========= 11781.62 $$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-22 17 ================= 32322.50 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-23 15 =============== 30906.44 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-24 28 ============================ 51107.90 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-25 15 =============== 27058.10 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-26 18 ================== 41076.49 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-27 15 =============== 22169.88 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-28 16 ================ 23945.80 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-29 25 ========================= 51122.95 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-30 12 ============ 23476.44 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2003-07-31 18 ================== 36266.76 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ |
Who needs Reporting Services when you’ve got REPLICATE? 
