William Canning Portfolio Annotated

Business Intelligence
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William Canning
canningw@gmail.com
858-485-6560

Portfolio Overview
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This portfolio contains examples from over 400 hours of hands-on Microsoft Business Intelligence training in the Set Focus Masters Program.
It contains additional examples from BI work performed after graduation.
SQL Server and Microsoft technologies covered in the program included Data Modeling, Management Studio, T-SQL Programming, Integration Services, Analysis Services, MDX Programming, Reporting Services, Visio, Performance Point Server, and SharePoint Services.

Contents
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Data Modeling and T-SQL (pg 4)
SQL Server Integration Services (pg 8)
MDX Programming (pg 12)
SQL Server Analysis Services (pg 15)
SQL Server Reporting Services (p 19)
Performance Point, Excel, and SharePoint (p 25)

Data Modeling and T-SQL
Final Project
Transform weekly Student Survey relational data model to denormalized star schema for SSAS OLAP application
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Final Project
Visio diagram of 2 fact tables and 5 shared dimension tables. All use identity columns for primary keys.
T-SQL to populate FactEvalScore (question level granularity) and FactEvalReturned tables (survey level granularity)
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Final Project
Completeddata model for populated RDBMS staging database in Management Studio
T-SQL to populate DimTrackSessionCourse and DimCategory denormalized tables
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Stock Market Project
Cube diagram of 2 fact tables and 3 dimension tables for price analysis. Majority of data in main fact table was created using SQL derived columns.
T-SQL common table expression with rownumber function used to obtain previous close price value
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SSIS – Integration Services
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SSIS Project
Master package created to run 8 packages for loading flat file data into RDBMS tables.
Last package run performs database maintenance tasks including shrink DB, rebuild indexes, update statistics, and DB backup.

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SSIS Project
Control flow loop reads directory of Excel timesheets and loads row values to RDBMS table.
Last task following loop is to email success or failure using Package variable row counts.

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Final Project
Execute SQL control flow task populates DimDates table in RDBMS staging database for OLAP cube.

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Control flow to move daily CSV stock price files to load directory and insert to RDBMS staging database.
Data flow task filters for valid ETF, Forex, or World Indices symbols and adds derived audit columns.

MDX Programming
MDX Project
Display ordered sales data by quarters and year 2005 for all product categories
Create calculated regions in Customer dimension to aggregate financial results
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MDX Programming
MDX Project
Display ordered percent product price increases for most recent month versus previous month
Display 2005 mid-Atlantic sales data by product category and year, quarter, month time hierarchy
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MDX Programming
MDX Project
Display customer city dollar sales and rank for each of the most recent 4 quarters
Display an ordered list of the top 3 customers in each product family by dollar returns
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SSAS – Analysis Services
Date dimension user defined hierarchies with Year, Half, Quarter, Month, WeekEnd, and Day hierarchy values displayed
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ETF Master dimension user defined hierarchies with Region, Country Name, Ticker Fund hierarchy values displayed in cube browser
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Calculated member for close price 10-day moving average and named set for last month with data
Perspective limiting display of web-based cube actions
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Cube action expression used to launch stock chart web site by right clicking on ticker symbol in Excel pivot table report
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SSRS – Reporting Services
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SSRS Project
Cascading parameters report with filter in MDX expression to select only valid date ranges
Report displays employee hours worked and labor dollars grouped by job and week in date range

SSRS Project
KPI report from calculated measures with image symbols stored in SharePoint
Report displays Q3 2005 dollar returns percent status and trend for all product categories
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SSRS Project
Exploded pie chart includes calculated point labels for percentage sales by category on chart data tab
Similar report displayed in bar chart format with additional breakout by sales year

SSRS Project
Stacked bar chart display of employee sales by year with supporting matrix report
Report totals created using column and row Subtotal feature of Reporting Services
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Create data driven subscription for parameterized stock daily price report with email delivery.
Create table to drive report, tie columns to report attributes, and run on a shared schedule.
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Data driven email subscription reports displayed with different contents and formats.
Reports are for different stock data and rendered with or without hyperlinks in Excel, MHTML, and PDF formats.

Performance Point, Excel,and SharePoint
SharePoint Project
PPS half gauge scorecard based on KPI values and goals deployed to SharePoint Server
Report displays quarterly progress toward annual sales goal by region for 2005
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Performance Point, Excel, and SharePoint
SharePoint Project
Excel dual Y-axis bar and line pivot chart deployed to SharePoint Server
Report displays 24 months dollar sales and percent of parent for Electronic products
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William Canning Portfolio Annotated

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