September 2010
Beginner to intermediate
424 pages
12h 17m
English
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Knight's Microsoft® Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer: Leveraging Microsoft SQL Server® Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services with Excel® and SharePoint®
by Brian Knight, Devin Knight, Adam Jorgensen, Patrick LeBlanc, Mike Davis
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the Analysis Services DMX query icon at the top. When prompted, connect to your SSAS
database and run the following query:
SELECT
[TS].[Model Region],
PredictTimeSeries([TS].[Quantity],6) AS PredictQty,
PredictTimeSeries ([TS].[Amount],6) AS PredictAmt
FROM
[TS]
WHERE [Model Region] = ‘M200 Europe’
FIGURE 1911
FIGURE 1912
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LESSON 19 Data Mining
12. This query will return the results shown in Figure 19-13. The PredictTimeSeries prediction
function is used to determine a given amount of units in the future. You passed in six units in
the future. Congratulations! You have built your first TimeSeries algorithm.
FIGURE 1913
If you’ve been intrigued by this data-mining section, you can read more about it in the book Data
Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by Jamie McLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, and Bogdan Crivat
(Wiley, 2008).
Please select Lesson 19 on the DVD to view the video that accompanies this
lesson.
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