Highlights
- Manually design reports in Reporting Services, and get the most out of the automated wizard.
- Report against both relational and OLAP databases.
- Deploy and administer reports.
- Set up report subscriptions and control report security.
- Use Reporting Services to display cubes.
- A thorough understanding of the need for data warehouses and OLAP.
- A practical understanding of how to build star schemas and multidimensional cubes in Analysis Services.
- Practical skills in the use of Integration Services to transform data into star schemas and cubes.
Course Details
Course Detail
SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (2 days, Monday/Tuesday)
Overview
Reporting Services (SSRS)
Report Server
Report Designer
Report Builder 3
Report Manager
Designing reports – fundamentals
Report Wizard
Report Designer
Report Builder 3
Tablixes (tables and matrixes)
SQL relational reports
MDX Multidimensional cube reports
Using report templates
Previewing reports
Deploying reports to Report Manager
Designing reports – further techniques
Formatting (including dates and currency)
Using expressions
Conditional formatting (and green-band reporting)
KPIs for SSRS (and data bars)
Grouping and drill-down
Totals and running totals
Sorting
Charts and guages
Parameterised SQL reports
Parameterised MDX reports
DAX Reports
Multiple reports
Drill-down, drill-through, and drill-across
Subreports
Jump reports
Linked reports
Alternative visualisation
Exporting reports to Excel and PDF
Report Viewer and creating a customised intranet site
Administration
Configuration Manager
Report Manager
Caching reports
Report snapshots
Report subscriptions (emailing reports)
Security
SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services (2 days, Wednesday/Thursday)
Overview
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
Cube design
Calculations and named sets (using MDX expressions)
KPIs (using MDX)
Actions (drill-through and reporting)
Partitions and aggregation design
Perspectives
Visualisation
MDX queries
SSRS reports on multidimensional and tabular cubes
Excel pivot tables
PowerPivot and DAX
Administration
Backing up and restoring star schemas
Backing up and restoring cubes
Slowly-changing dimensions
Incremental updates
Security
SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (1 day, Friday)
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
WMI Event Watcher Task
Sequence Container
Foreach Loop Container
Data Flow
Sources, destinations, and transformations
Data Viewers
Conditional Split transformation
Derived Column transformation
Lookup transformation (with caching, Sort and Merge transformations)
Fuzzy Grouping transformation
Administration
Deploying packages
Executing packages with dtexec and stored procedures
Scheduling packages with SQL Server Agent
Configuring packages
Logging packages
Security
Who should attend
Feedback
4.8 out of 5 average
"Our tailored course provided a well rounded introduction and also covered some intermediate level topics that we needed to know. Clive gave us some best practice ideas and tips to take away. Fast paced but the instructor never lost any of the delegates"
Brian Leek, Data Analyst, May 2022
“JBI did a great job of customizing their syllabus to suit our business needs and also bringing our team up to speed on the current best practices. Our teams varied widely in terms of experience and the Instructor handled this particularly well - very impressive”
Brian F, Team Lead, RBS, Data Analysis Course, 20 April 2022
