Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (6298)
In this course, you will learn how to implement business intelligence solutions (PowerPivot and tabular data models), create and deliver rich data visualizations with Power View and SQL Server Reporting Services, and discover business insights by using data mining.
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Continue developing your skills after class with 24/7 access to our live remote labs for six months, providing you with valuable extra time for hands-on practice.
Skills Gained
- Components, architecture, and nature of a business intelligence (BI)solution
- Create reports with Reporting Services
- Create reusable report items that simplify self-service reporting
- Manage a reporting infrastructure
- Create a multidimensional database with Analysis Services
- Implement dimensions in a cube, and measures and measure groups in a cube
- Use Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) Syntax
- Customize a cube
- Implement a tabular data model in PowerPivot
- Use Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) to query a tabular model
- Implement a tabular database
- Use Power View to create interactive data visualizations
- Use data mining for predictive analysis
Who Can Benefit
- Database professionals who need to fulfill a BI developer role to createanalysis and reporting solutions
- Database professionals responsible for:
- Implementing reporting solutions by using SQL Server Reporting Services
- Implementing multidimensional databases using SQL Server Analysis Services
- Creating tabular semantic data models for analysis using SQL Server AnalysisServices
- Creating visualizations of data by using Power View
- Creating data mining solutions using SQL Server Analysis Services
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of relational databases and basic knowledge of Microsoft Windows operating systems and its core functionality
Syllabus
1. Business Intelligence and Data Modeling
- BI
- The Microsoft BI Platform
2. Implementing Reports with Reporting Services
- Reporting Services
- Creating a Report with Report Designer
- Grouping and Aggregating Data in a Report
- Showing Data Graphically
- Filtering Reports using Parameters
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Publishing and Viewing a Report
3. Supporting Self-Service Reporting
- Report Builder
- Creating Reusable Report Items
4. Managing a Report Execution and Delivery
- Managing Security
- Managing Report Execution
- Subscriptions and Data Alert
- Troubleshooting Reporting Services
5. Creating Multidimensional Databases
- Multidimensional Analysis
- Creating Data Sources and Data Source Views
- Creating a Cube
- Cube Security
6. Working with Cubes and Dimensions
- Configuring Dimensions
- Attribute Hierarchies
- Sorting and Grouping Attributes
7. Working with Measures and Measure Groups
- Measures
- Measure Groups
8. Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
- MDX Fundamentals
- Adding Calculations to a Cube
- Using MDX to Query a Cube
9. Customizing Cube Functionality
- Implementing Key Performance Indicators
- Implementing Actions, Perspectives, and Translations
10. Implementing a Tabular Data Model by Using Microsoft PowerPivot
- Tabular Data Models and PowerPivot Technologies
- Creating a Tabular Data Model by using PowerPivot for Excel
- Sharing a PowerPivot Workbook and using PowerPivot Gallery
11. Data Analysis Expression (DAX)
- DAX Fundamentals
- Using DAX to Create Calculated Columns and Measures in a Tabular DataModel
12. Implementing an Analysis Services Tabular Data Model
- Analysis Services Tabular Data Model Projects
- Implementing an Analysis Services Tabular Data Model Using SQL Server Data Tools
13. Creating Data Visualizations with Power View
- Power View
- Visualizing Data with Power View
14. Performing Predictive Analysis with Data Mining
- Data Mining
- Create and Validate a Data Mining Model
- Using the Data Mining Add-In for Excel
- Using a Data Mining Model in a Report
