Errata
Errata for MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-448): Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance
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Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page 67 Exercise 2, Step 6 |
This exercise does not work. The .xml file is not generated and the package does not runs at all displaying "Package execution complete...." message. Can someone please confirm this error. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Zafar Alam | May 15, 2011 | Nov 30, 2012 |
Printed | Page 73 Second sentence in the 'IMPORTANT" section |
Second sentence 'and comparing these two' |
KC Thomsoon | Sep 10, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed, PDF | Page 78 step #5 |
The word "Success" needs to be changed to "Failure," making it read, "...change the Value drop-down list to Failure...." If this is not done, then the message box does not appear in step #11. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Dec 18, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 90 first line of code in the first step |
"AdventureWorks" should be "AdventureWorks2008" |
Microsoft Press | May 06, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 108 point number 4 |
Page 108 point number 4 of Determining which configuration type to use says that (in the last sentence) Registry Entry is one of those configurations that can not have multiple properties in one configuration. This is in contrast to what is mentioned earlier on page 99 in Table 3.1 Configuration Types Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Sep 06, 2012 | Nov 30, 2012 |
Printed | Page 111 2nd paragraph |
The second sentence reads (uppercasing mine): Note from the Author or Editor: |
Yawar Amin | May 08, 2012 | Nov 30, 2012 |
Page 114 Exercise 2 Step 1 |
"promoted" should be "prompted" Note from the Author or Editor: |
James Suciadi | Jul 08, 2011 | Nov 30, 2012 | |
Printed, PDF | Page 114 Exercise 1 step 3. h. |
Does not require ".()" after "property". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Jan 13, 2011 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Page 116 Exercise 2 Step 5 |
"[SSIS Configuration]" should be "[SSIS Configurations]" Note from the Author or Editor: |
James Suciadi | Jul 08, 2011 | Nov 30, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 117 |
Additional step needed between steps 8 and 9 |
Microsoft Press | Jul 13, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Page 119 First paragraph line 8 |
"SSIS through SSIS" should be "SSIS through SSMS" Note from the Author or Editor: |
James Suciadi | Jul 08, 2011 | Nov 30, 2012 | |
Page 155 Exercise 2 |
"DimCustomer.dtsx, has a package password set on it..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
James Suciadi | Jul 08, 2011 | Nov 30, 2012 | |
Page 171 2nd Line |
?Follow these steps to set up a data source that points to the AdventureWorks2008 database? Note from the Author or Editor: |
Nirmal Ram P K | Aug 01, 2011 | Nov 30, 2012 | |
Page 194 Point 23, Last paragraph |
The penultimate sentence reads "Rename the English Promotion Name attribute to Promotion Name...". However nowhere during this exercise does it tell you to include the English Promotion Name attribute. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Sep 15, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Page 242 Half way down |
The explanation in the sentence before of some MDX expression refers to 2004 - "...filtered for calendar year 2004 only." Yet the MDX expression refers to 2003 Note from the Author or Editor: |
Jude Agbro | Sep 19, 2010 | Nov 30, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 250 . |
"A KPI has four main properties: Value, Goal, Status and Target" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Aug 11, 2011 | Nov 30, 2012 |
Printed | Page 347 fifth sentence in the first paragraph |
"Figure 8-19" should be "Figure 8-21" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Microsoft Press | May 06, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 397 |
"Input Group" should be "Income Group" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Microsoft Press | Jul 13, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 438 Step 4 |
There is an error in step 4 of the exercise. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Jan 31, 2013 | |
Printed | Page 459 1st paragraph |
I don't think this is an error so much as a redundancy. In the SQL query used to get the data for the report, a couple of the join conditions are given twice: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Yawar Amin | May 03, 2012 | Nov 30, 2012 |
Page 487 Point Number 3 |
= =RunningValue(Fields!BikeBuyer.Value,Sum,"Group1") should read =RunningValue(Fields!BikeBuyer.Value,Sum,"Group1") - i.e. the first '=' should be removed Note from the Author or Editor: |
Jude Agbro | Oct 05, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Printed, PDF | Page 510 1st Paragraph of "Creating a Custom Assembly" |
Reads: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Jeremiah | May 08, 2012 | Nov 30, 2012 |
Printed | Page 513 Exercise 1, Step 9 |
There is a typo in this step. The end should read as ...Finished Products Stock Level as the report name,... Note from the Author or Editor: |
Zafar Alam | May 24, 2011 | Nov 30, 2012 |
Printed | Page 513 Exercise 2, Step 9 |
Another typo on this page. Expression syntax is incorrect. There is double equality sign which is not correct. It should read as... =IIF(Fields!SafetyStockLevel.Value > Fields!StockLevel.Value,"White","Black") Note from the Author or Editor: |
Zafar Alam | May 24, 2011 | Nov 30, 2012 |
Page 515 Step 6 |
"[..] In the Class Name box, type ch11_customassembly.customcolor." |
jomaweb | Oct 31, 2010 | Nov 30, 2012 | |
Page 525 Exercise 3 - Step 10 |
Step 10 ends with: Note from the Author or Editor: |
jomaweb | Oct 31, 2010 | Nov 30, 2012 |