Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Transform disparate enterprise data into actionable business intelligence

Put timely, mission-critical information in the hands of employees across your organization using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and the comprehensive information in this unique resource. Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 shows you, step-by-step, how to author, customize, and distribute information that will give your company the competitive edge. It's all right here--from data mining, warehousing, and scripting techniques to MDX queries, KPI analysis, and the all-new Unified Dimensional Model. Real-world examples, start-to-finish exercises, and downloadable code throughout illustrate all of the integration, analysis, and reporting capabilities of SQL Server 2005.

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From: Amazon
Posted: Jan-26-2009

Delivering BI with SQL Server 2005 is a great book

Over the past year I've read a number of SQL Server 2005 BI books and this one is absolutely the best. In addition to the clearly numbered Learn by Doing recipes there is plenty of good background and context information (which is hardly the case for many of the other books I've read). The book's...

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Posted: May-09-2008

A great walkthrough of the MS BI stack

Download the sample database. Sit down and fire up BIDS. Read and follow the directions. You'll be a better person for it.Well, you'll know more about the Microsoft BI stack anyway. It's a great way to get in and see every major (and most minor) feature of the stack.

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Posted: Mar-21-2008

Not As Useful If You Already Work In BI

I've already got experience with tools such as Cognos, ProClarity, Informatica and others. I bought this book to figure out how to use Microsoft's BI tools. The book really is a case study book where you are the business analyst, the data modeler, the systems analyst the ETL guy and the report...

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Posted: Feb-29-2008

Great candidate for a BI textbook!

I have chosen this book as a textbook for my graduate class in Business School, after sampling over a dozen BI textbooks in the market. This book is a good blend of BI concepts, managerial applications, as well as hands-on skills. Most of the other textbooks are either too dry or too technical....

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Posted: Jan-18-2008

Good but not great

This book is an introduction to the Business Intelligence suite of programs that come with SQL Server 2005: Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. The book takes a learn-by-doing approach where the author provides step-by-step instructions for creating and populating...

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Posted: Sep-15-2007

Great Book

The book provides a thoughtful informative view of how to use the Business Intelligence features of Visual Studio and SQL Server. Each chapter appropriately builds on the previous information.The reader is presented with an introduction to Business Intelligence. Next, the construction of a cube...

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Posted: Jul-24-2007

Good for an overview, but little else

I bought this because all the reviews were good but I've been very disappointed. The book provides an excellent overview that clearly details what BI features SQL Server 2005 has but it does little to actually explain HOW you do things. Yes, I know there are the do by learning sessions but they...

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Posted: Jul-20-2007

Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005

This is overall a very good read for those who like the hands on approach to learning. The author certainly knows the topic. Being new to this topic, I found it very easy to get lost in the details of the step by step examples, quite often forgetting the objective of the exercise which are...

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Posted: Jun-04-2007

A great book for those who learn by doing

This is a great book for those of us starting to learn the feature rich Microsoft BI tools. Its greatest strength is to fit the tools and features into the BI life cycle. I tried several other books and approaches but couldn't get the big picture with enough technical details to actually start...

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Posted: May-31-2007

A Comprehensive Read

This book is a perfect place to jump in and get your feet wet. I can't say how many tech books have put me to sleep before I've absorbed the content, this is not one of them. It's well laid out and will give you the understanding and ability to create your own dashboards. I agree with the reviews...

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