Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005  Brian Larson
0-07-226090-4padMcGraw-Hill 9780072260908 0072260904Jan-06
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Data warehouse administrators, Business Intelligence (BI) solution developers, and BI analysts will find out how to get the most out of Microsoft's powerful BI tools which are included free in SQL Server 2005.This practical, start-to-finish guide explains how to develop a comprehensive, secure, integrated, and highly available BI solution. Readers will learn to set up the database, mine and analyze data, and deliver the results.

Contents

PART I: Business Intelligence Chapter 1: What is Business Intelligence? Chapter 2: Data to Intelligence PART II: Defining Chapter 3: Structure Chapter 4: Creating an OLAP Database Chapter 5: Populating Chapter 6: Data Transformation Services PART III: Analyzing Chapter 7: OLAP Features Chapter 8: Dimension Types Chapter 9: Performance Enhancements Chapter 10: MDX Queries Chapter 11: MDX Scripting PART IV: Mining Chapter 12: Algorithms Chapter 13: Creating and Training the Model Chapter 14: Predicting Behavior PART V: Delivering Chapter 15: Reporting Services Chapter 16: Custom OLAP and Data Mining Application Development Chapter 17: Additional Tools