SQL Server 2008 for Business IntelligenceUTS Short Course

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Peter Gfader

Attendance You initial sheet

Hands On Lab You get me to initial sheet

Homework

Certificate At end of 5 sessions If I say if you have completed successfully

Admin Stuff

Course Timetable & Materials

http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Events/2010UTSSQL/

Resources

http://sharepoint.ssw.com.au/Training/UTSSQL/

Course Website

Course OverviewSession

Date Time Topic

1Tuesday14-09-2010

18:00 - 21:00

SSIS and Creating a Data Warehouse

2Tuesday21-09-2010

18:00 - 21:00

OLAP – Creating Cubes and Cube Issues

3Tuesday28-09-2010

18:00 - 21:00 Reporting Services

4 Tuesday05-10-2010

18:00 - 21:00 Alternative Cube Browsers

5Tuesday12-10-2010

18:00 - 21:00

Data Mining

Reporting services

Building reports• Export to which formats?• Adding interactivity with ?

Building ad hoc reports• Tools to create and modify reports?

Processing• Local vs server side?

Report Administration• Creating scheduled reports• Performance - Caching • Security

Recap

http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterSQLReportingServices.aspx

1. Three best ones

2. Three bad ones

3. Create report

Top 10 customers (Table)Top 10 products (Table)Top 10 employees (Table)1 chart that shows the top 10 customers1 usage of the gauge control (surprise me)

Homework

SSRS - More on reports

Report processing

Local Server side

More on reports

How to publish reports?

Push

Pull• Web• WPF, Windows Forms

More on reports

The plan

1. Create Data Warehouse

2. Copy data to data warehouse

3. Create OLAP Cubes

4. Create Reports

5. Browse the cube

6. Do some Data Mining Discovering a Relationship that was not obvious Predict future events (e.g. targeting and

forecasting)

Step by step to BI

Alternative cube browsers

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1. Overview Microsoft Data Analyzer Proclarity Excel 2003/2007/2010 Excel services Thinslicer Performance Point Power Pivot

Session 4: Tonight’s Agenda

Microsoft Data Analyzer

• Data analysis software for Microsoft Office XP

• Stand alone app

• Part of Office XP suite

• Not updated beyond version 3.5

Microsoft Data Analyzer

ProClarity (now assimilated by MS)

Drillable Charts e.g. Bar, Line, Pie, Area

Simple selection of data via Hierarchies

Auto-Highlighting for Readability

ProClarity – Selection of Data & Charts

Analyse via the decomposition Tree

ProClarity - Decomposition

Use for showing relative performance & change between Dimensions

ProClarity – Performance Map

ProClarity – Perspective View

Allow for comparison of 2 measures against selected hierarchies

Good for detecting values outside the norm

Statistical Sliders

Views

Briefing Books to share your analysis

ProClarity – Other Features

Connecting to an OLAP cube

General navigation of member information and cube data

Drilling down to details of reporting summaries

Venturing beyond the " X-Y " dimensions, and making the PivotTable Report truly multidimensional

Select formatting options for our Excel 2007 PivotTable Reports.

Excel 2007 - Pivot Table

Pivot Sample

Excel 2007 – Pivot Table - Fields and Drop Zones

Publishes Excel pivot tables onto SharePoint

http://richardlees.com.au/sites/Demonstrations/Pages/NZCensus_Excel.aspx

Excel Services

http://richardlees.com.au/sites/Demonstrations/Pages/TS_Foodmart.aspx

Bought by Angry Koala in 2008 – www.angrykoala.com.au

Adhoc Cube Browser on the Web

ThinSlicer

ThinSlicer

http://richardlees.com.au/sites/Demonstrations/Shared%20Documents/Windows%20Performance%20Monitor/Perfmon.aspx

Microsoft Performance Point

Excel Services (already in 2007)

PowerPivot via Excel 2010 (AKA Gemini)

Reporting Services Integration (already in 2007)

Visio Services 2010 (Strategy Maps)

Access Services

What else is SharePoint 2010 offering?

Put your spreadsheets online

Connect to live data

Auto refresh

Adhoc reporting

Excel Services

Allows you to publish reporting services reports up to SharePoint

Scheduling and exporting to different formats

Interactive drill through

Great for Static Reports

E.g. Monthly Sales

Reporting Services Integration

Publish Visio diagrams into SharePoint

View Visio diagrams through the browser without needing Visio to be installed

Data driven diagrams so you can pull information into your Visio dagrams

For more information see http://siddhumehta.blogspot.com/2010/02/strategy-maps-visio-services-2010.html

Visio Services (Strategy Maps)

Publish Access Databases into SharePoint

Create databases with forms and reports through SharePoint

Browse and edit records on the web

Access Services

“The most important thing about PowerPivot is the ability to share users analysis into SharePoint so that these other users can slice and data form within a browser.” - Andrew Fryer

Addin to Excel 2010

PowerPivot (Excel 2010)

Migration guide

http://www.reportingservicesmigration.com/

Resources - SSRS

SQL Server R2 Licensing

http://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/samples/Licensing_SQL_Server_2008.pdf

Data warehousing with SQL Server R2

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/data-warehousing.aspx

SQL Server R2

TechNet Virtual Labs - Hands on Labs

http://technet.microsoft.com/it-it/cc164207(en-us).aspx

http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterBusinessIntelligence.aspx

http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/betterSoftwareSuggestions/PerformancePoint.aspx

Resources

http://www.powerpivot.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/bi/powerpivot/

Excel - Powerpivot

1. Overview RS Report Builder Data Analyzer Proclarity Excel 2003/2007 Excel Services Thin Slicer Performance Point PowerPivot

Summary

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