July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
27h 38m
English
Despite this book’s detailed focus on the relational database engine, and transactional use, of Microsoft SQL Server, it’s imperative to realize and discuss the product’s wide range of business intelligence (BI) capabilities, some of which are arguably the best in the industry. Depending on the edition of SQL Server you purchase, you will have access to some or all of the following services:
Data Warehousing
Reporting and data visualization
Online analytical processing (OLAP)
Column store, in-memory analytics
Data Mining
Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
Complex event processing (CEP)
Master Data Management (MDM)
Data Quality.
We’ll cover SQL Server editions, and their included BI feature sets, at the end of ...
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