Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Save this file to your desktop as PowerPivotSample.xlsx."

A block of code is set as follows:

create procedure dbo.seeGLCurrentRatioKPI @UserDate datetime = NULL, 
                                        @TimeUnit varchar(10) = 'Period' 
as 
    declare @CurrentRatio          numeric(19, 5), 
            @PreviousCurrentRatio         numeric(19, 5), 
            @LastYearCurrentRatio         numeric(19, 5), 
            @CurrentBalanceAssets       numeric(19, 5), 
            @PreviousBalanceAssets      numeric(19, 5), 

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Select the first option on the top right, Clustered Column – Line and click OK."