... SQL Server 2005 really brought AnalysisServices into the spotlight. The cube designer was united with Integration Services and ReportingServicesin the Business Intelligence Development Studio, ... value in defining KPIs in a cube is that you will then have a uniform measurement to use for comparing various aspects of your business. Instead of every department defining profit margin with ... reviewing all these improvements in depth as you go through this book. Data Mining In its most basic form, data mining is the process of sifting through large quantities of information to gain...
... you find something of interest, you generally want additional information. One method of getting amplifying data for something you find in an analysis is to drill through to the underlying data. ... Decoding store The most interesting thing to understand is that AnalysisServices consists of a windows service and all these files for indexing and storage. To run SQL Server Analysis Services, ... CubePermissions collection. Data-mining objects: This is pretty much the MiningStructure collection and the subordinate object hierarchy. A mining structure contains one or more MiningModel objects, as well...
... much more here, so let’s look at mining structures. Mining Structures SSMS provides great access to data-mining structures and mining models. Using Data Mining Extensions (DMX) queries, you ... you can link a dimension, which enables you to create a pointer to a dimension defined in another database. By using linked dimensions, you can maintain “standard” dimension definitions in a database, ... CREATING DIMENSIONS 127 Now that you have a basic understanding of where dimensions fit in the grand scheme of things, let’s dive down and start looking at working with dimensions inAnalysis Services, ...
... relate financial data to manufacturing data, or calendar data to reporting data. You have several methods of creating time tables in BIDS: Generate a time table in the data source: Using the ... CREATING DIMENSIONS 166 Figure 6-53. The finished Date dimension 20. Save the solution. Summary So that’s our tour of dimensions in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services. Remember that defining ... the dimensions into a cube. That’s what we’re going to do in this chapter. In addition to building a cube from our dimensions, we’ll also look into calculated measures (deriving additional...
... Integration Services to extract and clean data before loading it into your staging database, you could add an AnalysisServices Processing Task at the end. The SSAS Processing Task in Integration Services ... understanding of the basics of deploying databases inAnalysis Services, we’ll dig a bit into using the Deployment Wizard and synchronizing databases. Then we’ll take a look at processing databases, ... remove this watermark. CHAPTER 8 DEPLOYING AND PROCESSING 215 Processing via XMLA Everything you do in BIDS and SSMS is actually executed against AnalysisServices with XMLA, so obviously you...
... 10-14. Invoking an action via Excel A reportingaction will open a SQL Server ReportingServices report when invoked, as shown in Figure 10-15. Note that the Target type allows selecting from ... performance against a specified goal. Analysis Services enables you to define KPIs in a cube so that everyone is using the same metrics. Actions are an interesting and, in my opinion, underused ... are three types of actions, defined when you create the action: general action, drillthrough action, and reporting action. A drill-through action, shown in Figure 10-13, defines a record set...
... tabs within the designer. Using the Data Mining Model Designer The Data Mining Model Designer will be your main work area, now that you have finished defining your model with the Data Mining Wizard. ... AccessoryBuyersCampaign mining structure using DMX. Enter the following code into the query window, highlight it, and click Execute: Create AccessoryBuyersCampaign mining structure Create Mining Structure ... the mining columns listed are not defined in your mining structure. These columns are added during model processing to hold values calculated by the model. The Node_Caption column contains the...
... mechanics of processing an object inAnalysis Services, which I feel helps reinforce the understanding of what’s going on behind the curtain. Processing Architecture When AnalysisServices processes ... feature for the BI services. So Microsoft now recommends setting up a BI environment (Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services) in dedicated virtual servers on a single physical ... against the underlying table to select the specific records for the partition, as shown in Figure 13-18. The Binding type has two options: Query Binding, as shown, and Table Binding. Table Binding...
... Reporting Services. SQL Server ReportingServices Another one of the BI servicesin the SQL Server platform is SQL Server Reporting Services. Reporting Services is a web-based service for hosting ... We’ll examine the new charting engine inReporting Services, and finally take a quick look at the new Report Builder and how it enables self-service reporting. ■ Note This is going to be a ... containers and how they can relate to visually presenting Analysis Services data. Tablix In SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, you had the option of creating a report with a table, as shown in...
... Off-the-Shelf Data Mining Tools 459 Definition 459 Operational Data Store vs. Data Warehousing 460 OLAP vs. Data Mining 460 Data Mining Models 460 Data Mining Algorithms 461 Hypothesis Testing vs. ... table may be linked to other tables lending them its primary key as a foreign key, which makes maintaining status information easy by maintaining only the lookup table. Thefollowing figure shows ... area. He is working in one of the largest projects for Commerce One involving building an online exchange for the auto industry. He designed and developed or participated in developing a number...
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