[...]... covered Microsoft data warehousing and OLAP Services as it related to the revolutionary Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Approximately seven months after that, Microsoft released its new version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2000 This version included many enhancements on an already great product Many of these came in the area of data warehousing and OLAP Services, which was renamed as "Analysis Services" Therefore,... experience with SQL Server, or not However, this book is not about teaching you how to use SQL Server Many books are available on the market that would be more appropriate for this purpose, such as Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming (Wrox Press, IBSN 1-861004-48-6) and Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming (Wrox Press, ISBN 1-861005-23-7) This book specifically handles OLAP, data warehousing, and data. .. Book For You? If you have already used SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services, or are familiar with it, you will see that this book adds a great value to your knowledge with the discussion of the enhancements to these services and tools If you are a database administrator or developer who is anxious to learn about the new OLAP and data warehousing support in SQL Server 2000, then this book is for you It does... Chapter 16: Data Mining – An Overview Data Mining 437 440 446 446 447 447 448 448 449 450 450 451 453 455 456 Historical Perspective Why is Data Mining Important? Why Now? 456 457 458 Inexpensive Data Storage Affordable Processing Power Data Availability Off-the-Shelf Data Mining Tools 458 459 459 459 Definition Operational Data Store vs Data Warehousing OLAP vs Data Mining Data Mining Models Data Mining... Contents Meta Data and the Repository 28 Decision Support Systems (DSS) 29 Analysis Server PivotTable Service 29 29 Analysis Manager 30 Client Architecture 31 Summary 32 Chapter 2: Microsoft Analysis Services Architecture 35 Overview 35 The Microsoft Repository 39 Architecture of the Microsoft Repository Microsoft Repository in Data Warehousing The Data Source Operational Data Sources 41 43 43 43 Data Transformation... questions you may have regarding Analysis Services and Microsoft data warehousing technologies So, what are the new areas in Microsoft OLAP and data warehousing that made it worth creating this new edition? We are not going to mention the enhancements to the main SQL Server product; rather, we will focus on enhancements in the areas of Data Transformation and Analysis Services These can be summarized... in SQL Server, giving you all you need to know to learn these concepts, and become able to use SQL Server to build such solutions If you have experience in data warehousing and OLAP using non-Microsoft tools, but would like to learn about the added support for these kinds of applications in SQL Server, then this book is also for you If you are an IS professional who does not have experience in data warehousing. .. length, the different aspects of the Microsoft Analysis Services: OLAP database storage (MOLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP), OLAP cubes, dimensions and measures, and how they are built from within Analysis Services' s front end, Analysis Manager There are two chapters that discuss Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS), and how it can be used in the Microsoft data warehousing scheme (Chapters 7 and 8) The new... Index Index Tuning Wizard Analysis Services Tuning 595 597 600 600 601 602 605 Storage Mode Selection Aggregation MDX vs SQL Queries Other Considerations 605 606 606 606 Query Enhancement 607 SQL Server/ OS Tuning 609 Windows 2000 SQL Server 2000 Settings Hard Drive Management Hardware And Environment Hard Drives CPUs RAM Network Interface Cards Summary Chapter 21: Maintaining the Data Warehouse Backup... Language (SQL) 106 Data Definition Language (DDL) Data Manipulation Language (DML) Data Analysis Support in SQL 106 107 107 Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) OLTP Design 107 108 Normalization Transactions Data Integrity Indexing Data Archiving 108 110 110 110 111 OLTP Reporting 111 Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) 112 OLTP vs OLAP 112 FoodMart 2000 113 FoodMart – An Overview The FoodMart OLTP Database .