Group by month, year, or anything else using a calculated column in SharePoint

I found an excellent example of how to group by month in a blog recently. It does require using SharePoint Designer, however. An alternative to grouping this way is to create a calculated column and group on that. The end result looks something like this: : Basically, you just create a new calculated column...

Mapping with Virtual Earth in SQL Server Reporting Services

After seeing an excellent article by Wayne Berry about Mapping in SQL Server Reporting Services using the Google Maps API, I was inspired to see what I could do with Virtual Earth. The answer: not much. Virtual Earth does has a stellar SDK. The SDK is all JavaScript based, so it may not be used by SQL Server...