Posts Tagged ‘business-intelligence’

Data warehousing for dummies

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Data warehousing for dummies / by Thomas C. Hammergren, Wiley, 2009

Here is a managers’ guide to planning an information system.

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Professional Microsoft SQL server

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Professional Microsoft SQL server 2008 programming / Rob Vieira, Wiley, 2009

Here is a book on SQL, “business intelligence”, and more that you will like if you use Microsoft systems. 850 pages.

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Smart business intelligence solutions with Microsoft SQL Server

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Smart business intelligence solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 / Lynn Langit, Microsoft, 2009

This book is not much about SQL, but more about Microsoft’s tools for data ‘mining’, ‘warehousing’, OLAP, and such. Learn about the ‘cube’ which can contain denormalized data. The tools provide much more than report formatting. This book is big and heavy, at 750 pages.

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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint server 2007

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint server 2007 / Elaine Andersen, Wiley, 2008

This book is for the business executive who needs a Business Intelligence solution considerably more powerful than an excel spreadsheet.  There is also some info for the admin, but only 15 pages out of  400.

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Data mining with Microsoft SQL server

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Data mining with Microsoft SQL server 2008 / Jamie MacLennan, Wiley, 2009

Here is an introduction to Microsoft’s business intelligence tools. Microsoft has provided many features in their product, and this book covers them in 600 pages. This is not a programmer’s book, and there is not much about SQL.

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