Calculation of average sales
Hi everybody,
I am currently developing reports with Report Builder 2.0 and got stuck with the following:
In order to calculate an average sales amount, I did the following:
Dataset 1:
Year
Sales Product A
100
Sales Product B
150
…
…
Total sales
1000
The products are selected by filters.
Dataset 2:
Year
Amount of Invoices Product A
3
Amount of Invoices Product B
8
…
…
Total amount of invoices
40
As above, the products are selected by filters.
Do you have any ideas how I can calculate the average sales per invoice for each product group?
Thanks in advance!
Andreas
October 14th, 2010 4:36pm
Hi - unfortuantely in Report Builder 2.0 and SQL 2008, it is not possible to join the data between two indpendant data sets in a report. You would need to join/correlate the data in the underlying queries and expose a single data set to the report.
In 2008 R2 a LookUp() feature was added which can relate data between tables in the same way Excel's LookUp() function works.
-JonHPMicrosoft SQL Server Reporting Services
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October 16th, 2010 2:07am