COURSE FEE
S$1800 exclude GST
Overview
This 3-day instructor-led course focuses 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 Exam 70-768.
Prerequisites
Participants who wish to take up this course should meet the following prerequisites:
- Experience of querying data using Transact-SQL
Who Should Attend?
This course is highly recommended for database professionals who need to fulfill the BI Developer role to create enterprise BI solutions. The primary responsibilities include:
- Implementing multidimensional databases by using SQL Server Analysis Services
- Creating tabular semantic data models for analysis by using SQL Server Analysis Services
Course Outline
- Introduction to Business Intelligence
- The Microsoft business intelligence platform
Lab: Exploring a BI Solution
- Introduction to multidimensional analysis
- Creating data sources and data source views
- Creating a cube
- Overview of cube security
- Configure SSAS
- Monitoring SSAS
Lab: Creating a multidimensional database
- Configuring dimensions
- Define attribute hierarchies
- Sorting and grouping attributes
- Slowly Changing Dimensions
Lab: Working with Cubes and Dimensions
- Working with measures
- Working with measure groups
Lab: Configuring Measures and Measure Groups
- MDX fundamentals
- Adding calculations to a cube
- Using MDX to query a cube
Lab: Using MDX
- Introduction to Business Intelligence
- The Implementing key performance indicators
- Implementing actions
- Implementing perspectives
- Implementing translations
Lab: Customizing a Cube
- 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
- DAX fundamentals
- Using DAX to create calculated columns and measures in a tabular data model
Lab: Creating Calculated Columns and Measures by using DAX
- Overview of data mining
- Creating a custom data mining solution
- Validating a data mining model
- Using the Data Mining add-in for Excel
Lab: Using Data Mining
