This document outlines an SQL Server 2008 business intelligence course. The course will cover SQL Server Reporting Services for building reports, processing reports locally or on the server, and report administration. It will also discuss analyzing data with tools like Microsoft Data Analyzer, ProClarity, Excel, and PerformancePoint. The course will demonstrate how to publish reports, create OLAP cubes, and do data mining and predictive analytics. Finally, it discusses alternative reporting and analysis options in SQL Server 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010 like PowerPivot and Visio Services.

1. SQL Server 2008 for Business Intelligence UTS Short Course

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3. Admin Stuff 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 

4. Course Website Course Timetable & Materials http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Events/2010UTSSQL/ Resources http://sharepoint.ssw.com.au/Training/UTSSQL/

5. Course Overview

6. Recap 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

7. http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/ RulesToBetterSQLReportingServices.aspx Three best ones Three bad ones Create report Top 10 customers (Table) Top 10 products (Table) Top 10 employees (Table) 1 chart that shows the top 10 customers 1 usage of the gauge control (surprise me) Homework

8. SSRS - More on reports

9. Report processing Local Server side More on reports

11. How to publish reports? Push Pull Web WPF, Windows Forms More on reports

12. The plan

13. Step by step to BI Create Data Warehouse Copy data to data warehouse Create OLAP Cubes Create Reports Browse the cube Do some Data Mining Discovering a Relationship that was not obvious Predict future events (e.g. targeting and forecasting)

14. Alternative cube browsers

15. Session 4: Tonight’s Agenda Overview Microsoft Data Analyzer Proclarity Excel 2003/2007/2010 Excel services Thinslicer Performance Point Power Pivot

17. Stand alone app

18. Part of Office XP suite

20. ProClarity (now assimilated by MS)

21. ProClarity – Selection of Data & Charts Drillable Charts e.g. Bar, Line, Pie, Area Simple selection of data via Hierarchies Auto-Highlighting for Readability

22. ProClarity - Decomposition Analyse via the decomposition Tree

23. ProClarity – Performance Map Use for showing relative performance & change between Dimensions

25. Good for detecting values outside the norm

27. Excel 2007 - Pivot Table 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.

28. Pivot Sample

29. Excel 2007 – Pivot Table - Fields and Drop Zones

30. Excel Services Publishes Excel pivot tables onto SharePoint http://richardlees.com.au/sites/Demonstrations/Pages/NZCensus_Excel.aspx

32. ThinSlicer 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

33. ThinSlicer

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

36. 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?

37. Put your spreadsheets online Connect to live data Auto refresh Adhoc reporting Excel Services

39. 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

41. 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)

43. Publish Access Databases into SharePoint Create databases with forms and reports through SharePoint Browse and edit records on the web Access Services

45. “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)

47. Migration guide http://www.reportingservicesmigration.com/ Resources - SSRS

48. 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

49. 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

50. http://www.powerpivot.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/bi/powerpivot/ Excel - Powerpivot

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

52. 3things… PeterGfader@ssw.com.au http://blog.gfader.com/ twitter.com/peitor

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