Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server

Course details

This course focuses on creating managed enterprise BI solutions. It describes how to implement multidimensional and tabular data models, deliver reports with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, create dashboards with Microsoft SharePoint Server PerformancePoint Services, and discover business insights by using data mining.

Note: This course is designed for customers who are interested in learning SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014. It covers the new features in SQL Server 2014, but also the important capabilities across the SQL Server data platform.

Course Outline

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence and Data Modeling
• Lesson 2: Creating Multidimensional Databases
• Lesson 3: Working with Cubes and Dimensions 
• Lesson 4: Working with Measures and Measure Groups
• Lesson 5: Introduction to MDX
• Lesson 6: Enhancing a Cube
• Lesson 7: Implementing an Analysis Services Tabular Data Model
• Lesson 8: Introduction to DAX
• Lesson 9: Implementing Reports with SQL Server Reporting Services
• Lesson 10: Enhancing Reports with SQL Server Reporting Services
• Lesson 11: Managing Report Execution and Delivery 
• Lesson 12: Delivering BI with SharePoint PerformancePoint Services
• Lesson 13: Performing Predictive Analysis with Data Mining 

Prerequisites

This course requires that you meet the following prerequisites:

• At least 2 years’ experience of working with relational databases, including:
• Designing a normalized database
• Creating tables and relationships
• Querying with Transact-SQL
• Some basic knowledge of data warehouse schema topology (including star and snowflake schemas)
• Some exposure to basic programming constructs (such as looping and branching)
• An awareness of key business priorities such as revenue, profitability, and financial accounting is desirable