Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services with MDX

Informationen zum Autor Sivakumar Harinath is a senior program manager with the SQL Server Analysis Services team.Ronald Pihlgren is a senior tester with the SQL Server Analysis Services team.Denny Guang-Yeu Lee is a principal program manager with the SQL Customer Advisory Team.John Sirmon is a senior program manager with the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft.Robert M. Bruckner is a principal architect with the SQL Server Reporting Services team. Klappentext Get up to speed on the premier business intelligence toolsetSQL Server 2012 is packed with powerful new Analysis Services features that will dramatically enhance business intelligence. Written by key members of Microsoft's product team, this book shows you how to apply these new capabilities to create sophisticated BI solutions. In order to accomplish this, you'll learn how to design, build, and work with the multidimensional and tabular Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM) using SQL Server Analysis Services. You'll then use MDX and DAX to query those databases so you can provide advanced analysis of business problems and build end-to-end solutions to meet your needs.Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services with MDX and DAX:* Shows how to utilize SQL Server Data Tools to build Analysis Services multidimensional and tabular databases* Shares fundamental concepts of DAX and MDX and dives into advanced concepts such as parent-child hierarchies and time-based analysis* Demonstrates methods for analyzing and optimizing DAX and MDX query performance* Describes how to use Excel 2010 in conjunction with Analysis Services to analyze data and effectively use PowerPivot(r) for SharePoint(r)* Explains Power View setup and configuration and presents real-world scenarios to help simplify reportingWrox Professional guides are written by working developers to address everyday needs. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.wrox.comProgrammer ForumsJoin our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world.Code DownloadsTake advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use.Read MoreFind articles, ebooks, sample chapters, and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you. Zusammenfassung Understand Microsoft's dramatically updated new release of its premier toolset for business intelligenceThe first major update to Microsoft's state-of-the-art, complex toolset for business intelligence (BI) in years is now available and what better way to master it than with this detailed book from key members of the product's development team? If you're a database or data warehouse developer, this is the expert resource you need to build full-scale, multi-dimensional, database applications using Microsoft's new SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services and related tools.Discover how to solve real-world BI problems by leveraging a slew of powerful new Analysis Services features and capabilities. These include the new DAX language, which is a more user-friendly version of MDX; PowerPivot, a new tool for performing simplified analysis of data; BISM, Microsoft's new Business Intelligence Semantic Model; and much more.* Serves as an authoritative guide to Microsoft's new SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services BI product and is written by key members of the Microsoft Analysis Services product development team* Covers SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services, a major new release with a host of powerful new features and capabilities* Topics include using the new DAX language, a simplified, more user-friendly version of MDX; PowerPivot, a new tool for per...

List of contents

INTRODUCTION xxxv
PART I: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 3
PART II: DESIGNING MULTIDIMENSIONAL BISM
CHAPTER 2: A FIRST LOOK AT MULTIDIMENSIONAL BISM 25
CHAPTER 3: UNDERSTANDING MDX 65
CHAPTER 4: DATA SOURCES AND DATA SOURCE VIEWS 103
CHAPTER 5: DIMENSION DESIGN 129
CHAPTER 6: CUBE DESIGN 173
CHAPTER 7: ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT 209
PART III: ADVANCED TOPICS IN BISM
CHAPTER 8: ADVANCED DIMENSION DESIGN 269
CHAPTER 9: ADVANCED CUBE DESIGN 315
CHAPTER 10: DESIGNING MULITDIMENSIONAL BISM FOR PERFORMANCE 419
CHAPTER 11: OPTIMIZING QUERY PERFORMANCE 479
CHAPTER 12: DATA MINING, MULTIDIMENSIONAL BISM, AND DATA MINING ADD-INS FOR OFFICE 2010 513
CHAPTER 13: SQL INTEGRATION SERVICES AND SQL SERVER REPORTING SERVICES WITH MULTIDIMENSIONAL
CHAPTER 14: SECURING MULTIDIMENSIONAL BISM 671
PART IV: POWERPIVOT AND TABULAR BISM
CHAPTER 15: SELF-SERVICE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND INTRODUCTION TO POWERPIVOT 719
CHAPTER 16: A FIRST LOOK AT TABULAR BISM 741
CHAPTER 17: ENHANCING YOUR TABULAR BISM 773
CHAPTER 18: INTRODUCTION TO DAX 813CHAPTER 19: ADVANCED TOPICS IN DAX 867
CHAPTER 20: ANALYZING MULTIDIMENSIONAL AND TABULAR BISMS IN EXCEL 907
CHAPTER 21: POWERPIVOT FOR SHAREPOINT 969
PART V: ADVANCED TOPICS WITH TABULAR BISM AND INTEGRATION WITH POWER VIEW
CHAPTER 22: INTRODUCTION AND CONFIGURATION OF POWER VIEW 999
CHAPTER 23: VISUAL ANALYTICS WITH POWER VIEW 1031
INDEX 1077

Product details

• Authors: Sivakuma Harinath, Sivakumar Harinath, Denny Gu Lee, Denny Guang Lee, Denny Guang-Yeu Lee, Ronal Pihlgren, Ronald Pihlgren
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2012
• EAN: 9781118101100
• ISBN: 978-1-118-10110-0
• No. of pages: 1176
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 235 mm x 55 mm
• Series: Wrox Programmer to Programmer; Wrox Programmer to Programmer
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing