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Box And Whisker Plots

Slava Murygin shows how to create a box and whisker plot in SSMS using spatial data types:

If you have no idea what Box-and-Whisker Plot is, please visit following link: http://www.wellbeingatschool.org.nz/information-sheet/understanding-and-interpreting-box-plots

At first, I will show how to do it based on AdventureWorks database in SQL Server 2014.

We will analyze amounts of Individual lines of Sales Orders within each month.

The first step is to create a Data Set to process.  That Data Set will contain a Month, Single Line amount and order number of that record within a month.

This is really cool…but I wonder if it wouldn’t be better to do this in R, where it’d take a lot less code.  If you can’t reach out to R, though, this is a good way of visualizing results.