Trend Analysis with SQL

Hi,
I have created a table with customer nos and the monthly summaries of their basket values, no of items purchased and no of visits for a period of two years.
So I have now a summary table that looks like:
Cust_no,purch_month1,..,purch_month24, items_month1,..,items_month24, Visits_month1,..,visits_month24
Total_purch, total_items, total_visits.
From this table I want to analyse the purchase and visits trends and then categorise them to, for example, loyal customers, loyalty-loosing customers etc.
This means I need a function that analyses values from a single row and then group the behaviour to get the counts.
Do you know of any function that can do this sort of activity?
Thanks
Sathyan

Not sure what you mean by RFM analysis ?
How would you define those terms - "Bell Shaped" - "Positive/Negative Slope" - what if it has 2 bell shapes in the curve - does that count or not ? or 3 or 4 bells ? what if it has a positive and a negative slope or 2 positives and 1 negative ?
If you can define specific rules for your terms then you can implement them in code, e.g. if there are more than 2 consecutive points where the values go up then there exists a "Postive Slope" to the curve.
Jeff

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a google search), but I see no ready answers. I saw something that
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Hi my name is vishal
For past 10 days i have been breaking my head on how to make column headers in table appear bold while datas in table appear regular from c# windows forms with sql server2008 using iTextSharp.
Given below is my code in c# on how i export datas from different tables in sql server to PDF report using iTextSharp:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
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conn.Open();
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dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
table.AddCell("Reprocessing Date");
table.AddCell("Patient Name");
table.AddCell("Dialyzer(Manufacturer,Size)");
table.AddCell("No.of Reuse");
table.AddCell("Verification");
table.AddCell("DialyzerID");
while (dr.Read())
table.AddCell(dr[2].ToString());
table.AddCell(dr[3].ToString() +"_"+ dr[4].ToString());
table.AddCell(dr[5].ToString() + "-" + dr[6].ToString());
table.AddCell("@count".ToString());
table.AddCell(dr[12].ToString() + "-" + dr[13].ToString());
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dr.Close();
table.SpacingBefore = 15f;
doc.Add(para);
doc.Add(png);
doc.Add(table);
doc.Close();
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As you can see the file to which i create and save and open my pdf report is
AssignedDialyzer.pdf.
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"Reprocessing Date","Patient Name","Dialyzer(Manufacturer,Size)","No.of Reuse","Verification" and
"DialyzerID".
However the problem i am facing is after execution and opening of document is my
column headers in table in pdf report from
c# and datas in it all appear in bold.
I have browsed through net regarding to solve this problem but with no success.
What i want is my pdf report from c# should be similar to following format which i was able to accomplish in vb6,adodb with MS access using iTextSharp.:
Given below is report which i have achieved from vb6,adodb with MS access using iTextSharp
I know that there has to be another way to solve my problem.I have browsed many articles in net regarding exporting sql datas to above format but with no success!
Is there is any another way to solve to my problem on exporting sql datas from c# windows forms using iTextSharp to above format given in the picture/image above?!
If so Then Can anyone tell me what modifications must i do in my c# code given above so that my pdf report from c# windows forms using iTextSharp will look similar to image/picture(pdf report) which i was able to accomplish from
vb6,adodb with ms access using iTextSharp?
I have approached Sound Forge.Net for help but with no success.
I hope anyone/someone truly understands what i am trying to ask!
I know i have to do lot of modifications in my c# code to achieve this level of perfection but i dont know how to do it.
Can anyone help me please! Any help/guidance in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.
I hope i get a reply in terms of solving this problem.
vishal

Hi,
About iTextSharp component issue , I think this case is off-topic in here.
I suggest you consulting to compenent provider.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/
Regards,
Marvin
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