Microsoft Business Intelligence 2016 Training Course

SQL Server Reporting Services

Designing reports – fundamentals
Report Wizard in SSDT-BI (aka BIDS/Visual Studio)
SQL relational reports
Tablixes (tables and matrixes)
Previewing reports
Deploying reports to Report Manager

Designing reports – further techniques

Formatting (including dates and currency)
Using expressions
Conditional formatting (and green-band reporting)
Grouping and drilldown
Grand totals, subtotals, and running totals
Interactive sorting
Charts and gauges
Parameterized SQL reports

Multiple reports

Drilldown versus drillthrough
Subreports
Jump reports
Linked reports

Administration

Reporting Services Configuration Manager
Security overview

Power BI OVERVIEW (OpTIONAL)

Power BI Service
Visualizing Data
Power BI Mobile                
Power BI Desktop
Transforming Data
Refining the Model
Calculations

(see Power BI course for intensive training in Power BI)

SQL Server Analysis Services

Business Intelligence overview
Analysis Services (SSAS) Multidimensional and Tabular mode
Review of third normal form and relational OLTP databases
Introduction to relational star schemas
Introduction to multidimensional cubes
Introduction to SSAS tabular models
Building dimension tables
Building fact tables
Building cubes in BIDS/SSDT
Developing an Integration Services ETL package

Dimension design

Attribute hierarchies
User hierarchies and drill-down
Attribute relationships
Key collections
Parent-child dimensions
Slowly-changing dimensions

Cube design

Calculations and named sets (using MDX expressions)
KPIs (using MDX)
Actions (drill-through and reporting)
Partitions and aggregation design
Perspectives

Data Warehousing

Building a data warehouse using Multidimensional Model
Buidling a data warehouse using Tabular Data Model

Visualisation

MDX queries
SSRS reports on multidimensional and tabular cubes
Security

 
SQL Server Integration Services

Overview

Integration services (SSIS)
Workflow
Control Flow toolbox overview
Data Flow toolbox (ETL) overview

Control Flow

Package variables
Script Task
Execute SQL Task
Send Mail Task
Sequence Container
Foreach Loop Container