Accelerated Business Intelligence Boot Camp
Course Length: Five Days, extended hours from 8:30am-4:30pm each day

Day One and Two: Microsoft Course 2791 Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

Audience

This course is intended for information technology (IT) professionals and developers who need to implement analysis solutions by using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services; for information technology (IT) professionals and developers who need to implement data transfer or extract, transform, and load (ETL) solutions by using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services; for information technology (IT) professionals and developers who need to implement reporting solutions by using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

This module introduces common analysis scenarios and describes how Analysis Services provides a powerful platform for multidimensional OLAP solutions and data mining solutions. The module then describes the main considerations for installing Analysis Services.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 2: Creating Multidimensional Analysis Solutions

This module introduces the development tools you can use to create an Analysis Services multidimensional analysis solution, and describes how to create data sources, data source views, and cubes.

Lessons

Lab 2: Creating a Multidimensional Analysis Solution

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 3: Working with Dimensions

This module describes how to edit dimensions and to configure dimensions, attributes, and hierarchies.

Lessons

Lab 3: Defining Dimensions

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 4: Working with Measures and Measure Groups

This module explains how to edit and configure measures and measure groups.

Lessons

Lab 4: Configuring Measures and Measure Groups

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 5: Querying Multidimensional Analysis Solutions

This module introduces multidimensional expressions (MDX) and describes how to implement calculated members and named sets in an Analysis Services cube.

Lessons

Lab 5: Querying a Cube

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 6: Customizing Cube Functionality

This module explains how to customize a cube by implementing key performance indicators (KPIs), actions, perspectives, and translations.

Lessons

Lab 6: Customizing a Cube

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 7: Deploying and Securing an Analysis Services Database

This module describes how to deploy an Analysis Services database to a production server, and how to implement security in an Analysis Services multidimensional solution.

Lessons

Lab 7: Deploying and Securing an Analysis Services Database

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 8: Maintaining a Multidimensional Solution

This module discusses the maintenance tasks associated with an Analysis Services solution, and describes how administrators can use the Analysis Services management tools to perform them.

Lessons

Lab 8: Maintaining an Analysis Services Database

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 9: Introduction to Data Mining

This module introduces data mining, and describes how to implement data mining structures and models. It then explains how to validate data model accuracy.

Lessons

Lab 9: Implementing Data Mining

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Day Three and Four: Microsoft Course 2792

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

This module introduces the role that Integration Services plays in extracting, transforming, and loading data. This module also describes the tools that you can use to build and manage Integration Services solutions.

Lessons

Lab 1: Using SQL Server Integration Services

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 2: Developing Integration Services Solutions

This module provides an overview of the development tasks that are involved in creating an Integration Services package. After completing this module, you will be able to create a basic package.

Lessons

Lab 2: Implementing an Integration Services Solution

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 3: Implementing Control Flow

This module introduces the tasks and precedence constraints that you can use to implement control flow in an Integration Services package.

Lessons

Lab 3: Implementing Control Flow

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 4: Implementing Data Flow

This module describes the data flow sources, transformations, and destinations that you can use to implement a data flow task in an Integration Services control flow. It also explains how to use data flow paths to direct valid and invalid rows through the data flow.

Lessons

Lab 4: Implementing Data Flows

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 5: Implementing Logging

This module discusses how to use logging in an Integration Services package, and explains how to configure and use logging providers to generate information about a package’s execution.

Lessons

Lab 5: Implementing Logging

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 6: Debugging and Error Handling

This module describes how to debug Integration Services packages by using the debugging tools in Business Intelligence Development Studio. It then explains how to implement error-handling logic in an Integration Services package.

Lessons

Lab 6: Debugging and Error Handling

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 7: Implementing Checkpoints and Transactions

This module explains what checkpoints are and how to implement them. It then discusses transactions, and describes how you can implement transactional data access logic in an Integration Services package.

Lessons

Lab 7: Implementing Checkpoints and Transactions

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 8: Deploying Packages

This module discusses how to create Package Configurations and how to deploy Integration Services packages to production servers.

Lessons

Lab 8: Deploying Integration Services Packages

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 9: Managing and Securing Packages

This module describes the management tasks that relate to Integration Services packages and explains how to perform those tasks by using the Integration Services management tools. It also describes how to secure Integration Services packages.

Lessons

Lab 9: Managing and Securing Packages

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Day Five: Microsoft Course 2793

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

This module introduces the role that Reporting Services plays in an organization's reporting life cycle, the key features offered by Reporting Services, and the components that make up the Reporting Services architecture.

Lessons

Overview of SQL Server Reporting Services

Installing Reporting Services

Reporting Services Tools

Lab 1: Using Reporting Services Tools

Exercise 1: Exploring Report Designer

Exercise 2: Exploring Report Manager

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 2: Authoring Basic Reports

This module introduces the fundamentals of report authoring, including configuring data sources and data sets, creating tabular reports, summarizing data, and applying basic formatting.

Lessons

Creating a Basic Table Report

Formatting Report Pages

Calculating Values

Lab 2: Creating a Simple Report

Exercise 1: Creating a Basic Table Report

Exercise 2: Formatting Report Pages

Exercise 3: Adding Calculated Values

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 3: Enhancing Basic Reports

This module introduces navigational controls and some additional types of data regions, and discusses how to use them to enhance a basic report.

Lessons

Interactive Navigation

Displaying Data

Lab 3: Enhancing a Report

Exercise 1: Using Dynamic Visibility

Exercise 2: Using Document Maps

Exercise 3: Initiating Actions

Exercise 4: Using a List Data Region

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 4: Manipulating Data Sets

This module explores data sets to a greater depth, including the use of alternative data sources and interacting with a data set through the use of parameters. Students learn how to dynamically modify the data set underlying a data region by allowing parameters to be sent to the underlying query. They also learn to use best practices to implement static and dynamic parameter lists when interacting with queries and stored procedures.

Lessons

Defining Report Data

Using Parameters and Filters

Using Parameter Lists

Lab 4: Manipulating Data Sets

Exercise 1: Using parameters to restrict query results

Exercise 2: Using parameters to filter report data

Exercise 3: Creating dynamic parameter lists

Exercise 4: Using parameters with a stored procedure

If Time Permits: Displaying all categories in a parameter list

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 5: Using Report Models

This module describes how to create a report model so that business users can create their own reports without using the full Report Designer development environment. Students also learn how to use Report Builder to create a report from a report model.

Lessons

Creating Report Models

Using Report Builder

Lab 5: Working with Report Models

Exercise 1: Creating a Report Model

Exercise 2: Using Report Builder to Create a Report

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 6: Publishing and Executing Reports

This module explains the various options you can use to publish reports to the report server and execute them.

Lessons

Publishing Reports

Executing Reports

Creating Cached Instances

Creating Snapshots and Report History

Lab 6: Publishing and Executing Reports

Exercise 1: Publishing Reports

Exercise 2: Executing a Report On Demand

Exercise 3: Configuring and Viewing a Cached Report

Exercise 4: Configuring and Viewing a Snapshot Report

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 7: Using Subscriptions to Distribute Reports

This module describes how to implement subscriptions so that you can distribute reports either automatically by e-mail or by publishing reports to a shared folder.

Lessons

Introduction to Report Subscriptions

Creating Report Subscriptions

Managing Report Subscriptions

Lab 7: Implementing Subscriptions

Exercise 1: Creating a Standard Subscription

Exercise 2: Creating a Data-Driven Subscription

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 8: Administering Reporting Services

This module discusses how to administer the Reporting Services server, how to monitor and optimize the performance of the report server, how to maintain the Reporting Services databases, and how to keep the system secure.

Lessons

Server Administration

Performance and Reliability Monitoring

Administering Report Server Databases

Security Administration

Lab 8: Administering Reporting Services

Exercise 1: Using Reporting Services Configuration Manager

Exercise 2: Securing a Reporting Services Site

Exercise 3: Securing Items

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 9: Programming Reporting Services

This module explains how to query Reporting Services information programmatically and how to automate report management tasks. Students also learn how to render reports without relying on Report Manager, and how you can extend the feature set of a report server by creating custom code.

Lessons

Querying for Server Information Using a Web Service

Automating Report Management

Rendering Reports

Creating Custom Code

Lab 9: Programming Reporting Services

Exercise 1: Using URL Access to Display a Report

Exercise 2: Building a Reporting Services Web Service Client

Exercise 3: Using the Report Viewer Control

After completing this module, students will be able to:

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