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Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence
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.
Chapter 1Making the Business Case for BI
Chapter 2OLAP Modeling
Chapter 3Data Sourcing and Preparation
Chapter 4Basic Cube Design
Chapter 5ETL: Basics
Chapter 6Intermediate Cube Design
Chapter 7Advanced Cube Design
Chapter 8ETL: Staging and Loading
Chapter 9Reporting Clients
Chapter 10Moving From Development to Production
Chapter 11Introduction to MDX
Chapter 12Introduction to Data Mining
Chapter 13 Future Directions
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