Introduction
* According to IDC, SQL Server's market share grew 25 percent in 2006 and now commands nearly 20 percent of the worldwide relational database market share
* Total software revenue for BI platforms grew 14.9 percent in 2006, reaching nearly $4.7 billion (IDC)
* Previous edition sold 12,000 copies
Author Biography
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Brian Larson, MCSD, served as a member of the Reporting Services development team and contributed to the code base. He is the chief of technology for Superior Consulting Services (SCS), a Microsoft Certified Partner.
Table of Contents
Part One: Business Intelligence
Chapter 1. Equipping the Organization for Effective Decision Making
Chapter 2. Making the Most of What You've Got--Using BI
Chapter 3. Searching for the Source--The Source of BI
Chapter 4. One-Stop Shopping --The Unified Dimensional Model
Chapter 5. BI Dev Studio and SQL Management Studio
Part Two: Defining Business Intelligence Structures
Chapter 6. Creating Data Marts
Chapter 7. Integration Services- Sources, Transformations, and Destinations
Part Three: Analyzing Cube Content
Chapter 8. Fill'er Up - Using Integration Services for Populating Data Marts
Chapter 9. Measure and Dimension
Chapter 10. Cube Features
Chapter 11. MDX Script
Part Four: Mining
Chapter 12. MDX Queries
Chapter 13. Intro to Data Mining
Chapter 14. Working with the Mining Model
Part Five: Delivering
Chapter 15. Exploring the Mining Model
Chapter 16. On Report- Creating Reporting Services Report
Chapter 17. Special Delivery- Building BI Using Reporting Services
Chapter 18. Integrating OLAP with Apps
Chapter 19. Excel Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts
