metric-system

Make SQL Server Reporting Services use metric measurements

I'm newly getting into creating and programming reports using SQL Server Reporting Services. One thing that bugs me right off the bat: I can't seem to find an easy way to tell the BIDS (Business Intelligence Dev Studio, a.k.a. Visual Studio) to use the metric system for measurements - you know - millimeters, centimeters etc., instead o...

Entering metric height for a person

This is a question to people who live with the metric system. When entering your height on forms is there a strong expectation that you would enter a value of meters or centimeters? We've gone with meters on WeightChart.com, but have seen some impossibly tall people wondering why our calculations are way off. We've implemented some sa...