Duration: 5 Days
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.
This course incorporates materials from Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (MS-10778) and covers the skills and knowledge measured by Exam 70-466. Along with on-the-job experience, this course helps prepare you for the exam.
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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.
What You Will Learn
- 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
Audience
- Database professionals who need to fulfill a BI developer role to create analysis 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 Analysis Services
- Creating visualizations of data by using Power View
- Creating data mining solutions using SQL Server Analysis Services
Prerequistes
- Knowledge of relational databases
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Windows operating systems and its core functionality
Course Outline
1. Business Intelligence and Data Modeling
- BI
- The Microsoft BI Platform
2. Implementing Reports with Reporting Services
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
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 Data Model
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
Course Labs
Lab 1: Report and Analyze Data
Lab 2A: Create a Report with Report Designer
Lab 2B: Enhance and Publish a Report
Lab 3: Implement Self-Service Reporting
Lab 4: Configure Report Execution and Delivery
Lab 5: Create a Multidimensional Database
Lab 6: Define Dimensions
Lab 7: Configure Measures and Measure Groups
Lab 8: Use MDX
Lab 9: Customize a Cube
Lab 10: Use PowerPivot for Excel
Lab 11: Create Calculated Columns and Measures by using DAX
Lab 12: Work with an Analysis Services Tabular Data Model
Lab 13: Create Interactive Reports with Power View
Lab 14: Use Data Mining to Support a Marketing Campaign