Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Acknowledgements

PART 1: Business Intelligence
1. Equipping the Organization for Effective Decision Making
2. Making the Most of What You've Got -- Using Business Intelligence
3. Searching for the Source -- The Source of Business Intelligence
4. One-Stop Shopping -- The Unified Dimensional Model
5. First Steps -- Beginning the Development of Business Intelligence

PART 2: Defining Business Intelligence Structures
6. Building Foundations -- Creating and Populating Data Marts
7. Fill 'er up Using Integration Services for Populating Data Marts

PART 3: Analyzing Cube Content
8. Cubism -- Measures and Dimensions
9. Bells and Whistles -- Special Features of OLAP Cubes
10. Writing a New Script -- MDX Scripting
11. Pulling It Out and Building It Up -- MDX Queries

PART 4: Mining
12. Panning for Gold -- Introduction to Data Mining
13. Building the Mine -- Working with the Data Mining Model
14. Spelunking -- Exploration Using Data Mining

PART 5: Delivering
15. On Report -- Delivering Business Intelligence with Reporting Services
16. Let's Get Together - Integrating OLAP with Your Applications
17. Another Point of View - Excel Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts