Get the end-to-end instruction you need to design, develop, and deploy more effective data integration, reporting, and analysis solutions using SQL Server 2008—whether you’re new to business intelligence (BI) programming or a seasoned pro. With real-world examples and insights from an expert team, you’ll master the concepts, tools, and techniques for building solutions that deliver intelligence—and business value—exactly where users want it. Discover how to: 
<li>Manage the development life cycle and build a BI team</li> <li>Dig into SQL Server Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services</li> <li>Navigate the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS)</li> <li>Write queries that rank, sort, and drill down on sales data</li> <li>Develop extract, transform, and load (ETL) solutions</li> <li>Add a source code control system</li> <li>Help secure packages for deployment via encryption and credentials </li>
<li>Use MDX and DMX Query Designers to build reports based on OLAP cubes and data mining models</li> <li>Create and implement custom objects using .NET code</li> <li>View reports in Microsoft Office Excel and Office SharePoint Serverook</li>

Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008

Business & Money

Langit, Lynn

Goff, Kevin S.

Mauri, Davide

Malik, Sahil

Welch, John C.

Management & Leadership

Microsoft Press

Foundations of SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence introduces the entire exciting gamut of business intelligence tools included with SQL Server 2008. Microsoft has designed SQL Server 2008 to be more than just a database. It’s a complete business intelligence (BI) platform. The database is at its core, and surrounding the core are tools for data mining, modeling, reporting, analyzing, charting, and integration with other enterprise-level software packages.
SQL Server 2008 puts an incredible amount of BI functionality at your disposal. But how do you take advantage of it? That’s what this book is all about. Authors Guy Fouché and Lynn Langit show how to implement end-to-end BI solutions using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and other tools in the Microsoft business intelligence toolkit. You’ll learn about all-features such as PowerPivot and Report Builder 3.0. Also provided are clear examples of predictive analysis made possible through powerful data mining features in SQL Server.
If you’re an analyst or developer working with SQL Server 2008 who is charged with delivering results that drive business success, you can’t afford to be without this book; you can’t afford to ignore the powerful business intelligence suite that Microsoft has placed at your disposal. 
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<li>Provides the "big picture" of Microsoft’s BI tool suite </li>
<li>Covers PowerPivot and other game-changing technologies introduced alongside SQL Server 2008 Release 2 </li>
<li>Gives a practical analysis of features based on real-world practices </li>
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Foundations of SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence (Expert's Voice in SQL Server)

Fouché, Guy

Reference

Apress

Business Intelligence (BI) is the fastest-growing segment of Information Technology. Every business needs to effectively employ BI to stay competitive, and every IT professional needs to master BI to stay employed. This book is the quickest path to seeing the BI forest as a whole as well as understanding the trees within it. It is essential reading for all who work with SQL Server 2005. Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence is written by a noted expert from a practical perspective. It is designed for all users of any of the tools in SQL Server 2005's extraordinarily rich BI product suite. Developers, end-users, and even managers will find this an enlightening guide to the power and promise of SQL Server 2005 BI.

Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence

Computers & Technology

Programming

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