20768 - Developing SQL Data Models
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- Private class for your team
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Course Overview
Course Length: 3 days
Description: The focus of this 3-day instructor-led course is on creating managed enterprise BI solutions. It describes how to implement both multidimensional and tabular data models and how to create cubes, dimensions, measures, and measure groups. This course helps you prepare for the Exam 70-768.
Audience: The primary audience for this course are database professionals who need to fulfil BI Developer role to create enterprise BI solutions.
Primary responsibilities will include:
• Implementing multidimensional databases by using SQL Server Analysis Services
• Creating tabular semantic data models for analysis by using SQL Server Analysis Services
Prerequisites: Before attending this course, students must have:
- Experience of querying data using Transact-SQL
What You're Going To Learn
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the components, architecture, and nature of a BI solution
- Create a multidimensional database with Analysis Services
- Implement dimensions in a cube
- Implement measures and measure groups in a cube
- Use MDX syntax
- Customize a cube
- Implement a tabular database
- Use DAX to query a tabular model
- Use data mining for predictive analysis
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Course Outline
Introduction to Business Intelligence and Data Modeling
- Introduction to Business Intelligence
- The Microsoft business intelligence platform
- Lab: Exploring a Data Warehouse
Creating Multidimensional Databases
- Introduction to multidimensional analysis
- Creating data sources and data source views
- Creating a cube
- Overview of cube security
- Lab: Creating a multidimensional database
Working with Cubes and Dimensions
- Configuring dimensions
- Define attribute hierarchies
- Sorting and grouping attributes
- Lab: Working with Cubes and Dimensions
Working with Measures and Measure Groups
- Working with measures
- Working with measure groups
- Lab: Configuring Measures and Measure Groups
Introduction to MDX
- MDX fundamentals
- Adding calculations to a cube
- Using MDX to query a cube
- Lab: Using MDX
Customizing Cube Functionality
- Implementing key performance indicators
- Implementing actions
- Implementing perspectives
- Implementing translations
- Lab: Customizing a Cube
Implementing a Tabular Data Model by Using Analysis Services
- Introduction to tabular data models
- Creating a tabular data model
- Using an analysis services tabular model in an enterprise BI solution
- Lab: Working with an Analysis services tabular data model
Introduction to Data Analysis Expression (DAX)
- DAX fundamentals
- Using DAX to create calculated columns and measures in a tabular data model
- Lab: Creating Calculated Columns and Measures by using DAX
Performing Predictive Analysis with Data Mining
- Overview of data mining
- Using the data mining add-in for Excel
- Creating a custom data mining solution
- Validating a data mining model
- Connecting to and consuming a data mining model
- Lab: Perform Predictive Analysis with Data Mining
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