<p>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.<br><br> Discover how to:<br><br></p>
<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

<p><div>Here is the expert-level, insider guidance you need on using Azure SQL Database as your back-end data store. This book highlights best practices in everything ranging from full-stack projects to mobile applications to critical, back-end APIs. The book provides instruction on accessing your data from any language and platform. And you learn how to push processing-intensive work into the database engine to be near the data and avoid undue networking traffic. Azure SQL is explained from a developer's point of view, helping you master its feature set and create applications that perform well and delight users.<br /></div> <div><br /></div> <div>Core to the book is showing you how Azure SQL Database&nbsp;provides relational and post-relational support so that any workload can be managed with easy accessibility from any platform and any language. You will learn about features ranging from lock-free tables to columnstore indexes, and about support for data formats ranging from JSON and key-values to the nodes and edges in the graph database paradigm. Reading this book prepares you to deal with almost all data management challenges, allowing you to create lean and specialized solutions having the elasticity and scalability that are needed in the modern world.&nbsp;</div> <div><br /></div> <div><br /></div> <div><b>What You Will Learn</b></div> <div> <div> <ul> <li>Master Azure SQL Database in your development projects from design to the CI/CD pipeline</li> <li>Access your data from any programming language and platform</li> <li>Combine key-value, JSON, and relational data in the same database</li> <li>Push data-intensive compute work into the database for improved efficiency</li> <li>Delight your customers by detecting and improving poorly performing queries</li> <li>Enhance performance through features such as columnstore indexes and lock-free tables</li> <li>Build confidence in your mastery of Azure SQL Database's feature set</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div><br /></div> <div><br /></div> <div><b>Who This Book Is For</b></div> <div><br /></div> <div>Developers of applications and APIs that benefit from cloud database support, developers who wish to master their tools (including Azure SQL Database, and those who want their applications to be known for speedy performance and the elegance of their code<br /></div></p>

Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers: Building Applications in the Microsoft Cloud

Computers & Technology

Mishra, Sanjay

Coriani, Silvano

Hoffman, Anna

Popovic, Jovan

Programming

Apress

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