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SQL Server Analysis Services: Hands-On

Analyzing Data for Business Intelligence
 
Course: 139   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Leverage Analysis Services to produce Business Intelligence solutions
  • Create cubes as part of a multidimensional data warehouse
  • Extend hierarchies and formulate queries with Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
  • Perform administrator tasks for backing up, restoring and monitoring cubes
  • Make smarter business decisions with data mining techniques
  • Implement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor business objectives

Course Benefits

With the current explosion of data in today's enterprise environment, traditional methods of querying and reporting on information are no longer sufficient. This course provides the skills to analyse and discover trends in your data warehouse. You learn to create On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) cubes using Business Intelligence tools while producing an intelligent business strategy for your organisation.

Who Should Attend

Business analysts and others who need to analyse data stored in SQL Server databases. A basic knowledge of relational databases is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Throughout this course, you gain extensive experience with SQL Server Analysis Services. Practical exercises include:
  • Building a data source view
  • Creating and deploying a cube
  • Modifying cube dimensions
  • Navigating hierarchies
  • Establishing relationships in the data model
  • Building complex expressions with MDX
  • Implementing a security policy
  • Forecasting trends with data mining techniques

Related Courses

  • 134 SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
  • 523 SQL Server Reporting Services
  • 136 SQL Server 2008 New Features
  • 138 SQL Server 2008 Database Administration
  • 538 SharePoint Technologies Comprehensive Introduction
  • 954 Deploying SharePoint Server 2007
  • 956 Administering MOSS 2007

   SQL Server Analysis Services

Upcoming Dates

16 - 19 Sep, 2008
London
4 - 7 Nov, 2008
London
6 - 9 Jan, 2009
London
10 - 13 Mar, 2009
London
5 - 8 May, 2009
London
30 Jun - 3 Jul, 2009
London

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SQL Server Analysis Services: Hands-On

Analyzing Data for Business Intelligence
 
Course: 139   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course Content
 

Introduction to Business Intelligence (BI)

  • Defining the business needs
  • Creating an end-to-end solution with BI wizards
  • BI Studio for Analysis Services
  • Pulling data from disparate sources

Building and Modifying an OLAP Cube

Defining fact tables

  • Identifying and selecting available measures
  • Denormalising techniques

Creating dimensions

  • Implementing a Star and Snowflake Schema
  • Calculating time dimensions with the BI Wizard

Partitioning for optimal performance

  • Choosing between ROLAP, MOLAP and HOLAP
  • Configuring incremental updates

Creating cube perspectives

  • Filtering business-related information
  • Slicing and dicing data

Extending the Cube with Hierarchies

Parent-child relationships

  • Declaring hierarchies
  • Grouping related attributes
  • Equal Areas
  • Clusters
  • Buckets

Creating hierarchies

  • Modifying existing attributes
  • Editing grouping properties

Expanding the BI Data Model

Referencing relationships

  • Converting a dimension to a measure
  • Choosing between dimension data and fact table data

Resolving many-to-many relationships

  • Identifying relationship anomalies
  • Implementing intermediate fact and dimension tables

Traversing the Hierarchies with MDX

Retrieving data with MDX

  • Composing simple MDX queries
  • Manipulating data
  • Navigating hierarchies with parent, child, cousin and ancestor

Formulating MDX calculations

  • Summing multiple measures
  • Calculating gross margins

Administering Analysis Services

Implementing security

  • Creating roles and grouping users
  • Assigning permissions to objects

Controlling data access

  • Preventing access to data sources
  • Giving rights to securables

Performance tuning

  • Monitoring current activity
  • Indexing tables to improve read performance
  • Caching to avoid disc access

Guarding against disasters

  • Backing up the Analysis database with Management Studio
  • Restoring databases
  • Synchronising databases on multiple servers

Gaining Business Advantage with Data Mining

Finding patterns in your data

  • Correlating business trends
  • Predicting future trends with algorithms

Determining the correct model

  • Choosing between discrete and continuous attributes
  • Analysing various data mining algorithms

Validating models

  • Training algorithms for optimal results
  • Exploring results with data mining viewers

Monitoring KPIs for Better Business Decisions

Reporting on business objectives with KPIs

  • Establishing business goals
  • Selecting critical performance indicators
  • Implementing KPIs with expressions
  • Running reports based on Analysis Services

Browsing the cube with dashboards

  • Enumerating available client tools
  • Viewing KPIs with SharePoint
  • Encapsulating business trends into a single view
 
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SQL Server Analysis Services: Hands-On Tuition

Analyzing Data for Business Intelligence
 
Course: 139   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course 139 Tuition

£ 1,695Standard Tuition
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  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Lunch
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • FREE participation in the Learning Tree Professional Certification Programmes (including related exams)
  
 

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