Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9780072260908 ISBN: 0072260904 Label: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 776 Publication Date: January 23, 2006 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Sales Rank: 37476 Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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.
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Rating: - A great walkthrough of the MS BI stack
Download the sample database. Sit down and fire up BIDS. Read and follow the directions. You'll be a better person for it.
Well, you'll know more about the Microsoft BI stack anyway. It's a great way to get in and see every major (and most minor) feature of the stack.
Rating: - Not As Useful If You Already Work In BI
I've already got experience with tools such as Cognos, ProClarity, Informatica and others. I bought this book to figure out how to use Microsoft's BI tools.
The book really is a case study book where you are the business analyst, the data modeler, the systems analyst the ETL guy and the report developer. It is written with a "learn by doing" premise. If you haven't done all of the business requirements exercises, data modeler tasks, etc... you won't be able to do the Integration Services ... Read More
Rating: - Great candidate for a BI textbook!
I have chosen this book as a textbook for my graduate class in Business School, after sampling over a dozen BI textbooks in the market. This book is a good blend of BI concepts, managerial applications, as well as hands-on skills. Most of the other textbooks are either too dry or too technical. This book gives you an overview of BI components, processes, and applications in business world. The step-by-step learn-by-doing exercises are particularly helpful for students who might otherwise be intimidated ... Read More
Rating: - Good but not great
This book is an introduction to the Business Intelligence suite of programs that come with SQL Server 2005: Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. The book takes a learn-by-doing approach where the author provides step-by-step instructions for creating and populating data marts as well as extracting information from them. Since this is a broad topic, the coverage is shallow but it does provide an adequate introduction to these products. However, there are numerous issues with ... Read More
Rating: - Great Book
The book provides a thoughtful informative view of how to use the Business Intelligence features of Visual Studio and SQL Server. Each chapter appropriately builds on the previous information.
The reader is presented with an introduction to Business Intelligence. Next, the construction of a cube using Analysis Services is explained and later the use of Integration Services is illustrated. Lastly, working the data with MDX queries is discussed and then the final data is displayed with Reporting ... Read More
- A great walkthrough of the MS BI stack
- Not As Useful If You Already Work In BI
