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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide Get to grips with Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing technologies using this practical guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849688888
Length 350 pages
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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide
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Preface
1. Data Warehouse Design 2. SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional Cube Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Tabular Model Development of SQL Server Analysis Services 4. ETL with Integration Services 5. Master Data Management 6. Data Quality and Data Cleansing 7. Data Mining – Descriptive Models in SSAS 8. Identifying Data Patterns – Predictive Models in SSAS 9. Reporting Services 10. Dashboard Design 11. Power BI 12. Integrating Reports in Applications Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned some of the benefits of having OLAP cube over the data warehouse. Then we learned how to create cubes and dimensions in the SSAS Multidimensional. We've walked through how to create hierarchies and modify dimensions and measure properties. Then we saw how to create calculated columns in the data source view. Some of the changes had to be made in the cube as a calculation; we used MDX, which is a query language for SSAS Multidimensional, to create calculated measures and a named set. Finally, we saw how to deploy an analysis services project to the SSAS Server and how to load data into the database while processing.

There are still many aspects in Analysis Services multidimensional that need to be studied in a more detailed way. We strongly recommend that you use one of the good books written on SQL Server Analysis Services in order to dive deep in to all the aspects of Analysis Services and learn how to face real-world scenarios with SSAS Multidimensional...

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