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Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005

Date
12-16 Nov 2007 (Add to calendar) GMT
Venue
JB International , London, GB
Cost
£1995+vat

Introduction - SSAS

Database Design

Review of third normal form and traditional OLTP databases
Introduction to designing OLAP star and snowflake schemas
Introduction to designing cubes

Analysis Services (using Business Intelligence Development Studio - BIDS)

Building fact tables
Building dimensions
Building cubes

Pivot Tables and Matrices

Browsing cubes in BIDS and Management Studio (SSMS)
Browsing cubes in Excel
Browsing cubes in Web Pages
Cubes in Reporting Services (SSRS)

Maintaining data warehouses

Backup and restoring star schemas
Backup and restoring of cubes
Cube security
Updating cubes

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Using SSIS Wizards
Using SSIS Designer
Using SSIS to normalise data
Using SSIS to denormalise data
Using SSIS to process cubes

Analysis Services programming

MDX queries and expressions
DMX data mining queries
ASSL and XMLA and AMO

SSIS Programming

SSIS and TSQL (Transact SQL)
SSAS and VB.NET & C#
SSIS and VB.NET


Running and saving SSIS

Scheduling SSIS packages
Running from stored procedures
Saving to SQL Server
Saving to file

Advanced Analysis Services

Data mining
Deployment
Perspectives
Actions
Write-back

Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Architecture

Reporting Services
Report Server
Report Server databases
Report Designer
Report Manager
Report Models
Report Builder

Designing a simple report

Report wizards
Report Designer
Basic formatting
Using templates
Previewing
Deploying

Working with data

SQL queries
Query Builder
MDX queries
DSV (data source views)
Grouping

Advanced reports

Formatting
Using expressions
Page breaks
Matrices
Headers
Graphics

Interactive reports

Parameters
Drill through

Report Builder

Tables and matrices
Adding clickthrough
Sorting and filtering

Administration

Report Manager
Configuration Manager

Management areas

Managing Report Server
Managing security
Managing subscriptions
Managing Report Models
Managing deployment
Managing access

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