Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Utilize Microsoft's Data Warehousing, Mining & Reporting Tools to Provide Critical Intelligence to A / Edition 1
by Brian Larson
Transform disparate enterprise data into actionable business intelligence
Put timely, mission-critical information in the hands of employees across your organization using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and the comprehensive information in this unique resource. Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 shows you, step-by-step, how
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Transform disparate enterprise data into actionable business intelligence
Put timely, mission-critical information in the hands of employees across your organization using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and the comprehensive information in this unique resource. Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 shows you, step-by-step, how to author, customize, and distribute information that will give your company the competitive edge. It's all right here--from data mining, warehousing, and scripting techniques to MDX queries, KPI analysis, and the all-new Unified Dimensional Model. Real-world examples, start-to-finish exercises, and downloadable code throughout illustrate all of the integration, analysis, and reporting capabilities of SQL Server 2005.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780072260908
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
- Publication date:
- 01/31/2006
- Series:
- Essential Skills for Database Profession
- Pages:
- 776
- Product dimensions:
- 7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.57(d)
Table of Contents
| Ch. 1 | Equipping the organization for effective decision making | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Making the most of what you've got - using business intelligence | 13 |
| Ch. 3 | Searching for the source - the source of business intelligence | 25 |
| Ch. 4 | One-stop shopping - the unified dimensional model | 43 |
| Ch. 5 | First steps - beginning the development of business intelligence | 61 |
| Ch. 6 | Building foundations - creating and populating data marts | 95 |
| Ch. 7 | Fill 'er up - using integration services for populating data marts | 141 |
| Ch. 8 | Cubism - measures and dimensions | 273 |
| Ch. 9 | Bells and whistles - special features of OLAP cubes | 321 |
| Ch. 10 | Writing a new script - MDX scripting | 375 |
| Ch. 11 | Pulling it out and building it up - MDX queries | 421 |
| Ch. 12 | Panning for gold - introduction to data mining | 457 |
| Ch. 13 | Building the mine - working with the data mining model | 483 |
| Ch. 14 | Spelunking - exploration using data mining | 519 |
| Ch. 15 | On report - delivering business intelligence with reporting services | 555 |
| Ch. 16 | Let's get together - integrating OLAP with your applications | 673 |
| Ch. 17 | Another point of view - Excel pivot tables and pivot charts | 717 |
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