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heading Technical Training - Designing and Implementing a Data Warehouse Using Microsoft SQL Server 7.0

Course No: M1502 Course Lengh: 5 Days

Who Should Attend: This course is designed for people who are required to plan, implement, and maintain a data warehouse using Microsoft SQL Server™ client/server database management system version 7.0.

Pre-Requisites:

  • Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0.
  • Course 832, System Administration for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, and Course 833, Implementing a database on Microsoft SQL Server 7.0.
  • Knowledge of Transact-SQL usage in the development of online transaction processing (OLTP) systems.
  • Basic understanding of programming principles (especially experience with a scripting language like Microsoft Visual Basic® Scripting Edition).
  • Understanding of basic database design, administration, and implementation concepts.

Introduction to Data Warehousing

  • What is data warehousing?
  • Data marts and data warehouses
  • The data warehousing process
  • Data in a data warehouse

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  • Business analysis process
  • Data warehousing system
  • Modeling a data warehouse
  • Choosing the grain
  • Establishing dimensions
  • Establishing a fact table
  • Implementing a star schema

Populating a Data Warehouse

  • Process overview
  • Methods of populating a data warehouse
  • Tools for populating a data warehouse
  • Populating a data warehouse by using DTS

Creating Cubes

  • Introduction to cubes
  • Defining cubes
  • Managing access to cubes
  • Demonstration: using OLAP manager
  • Storing cubes
  • Processing cubes
  • Customizing cubes

Aalyzing Cube Data Using Clients

  • Concepts of data analysis
  • Analyzing local cubes
  • Analyzing data using the Web
  • Tools for analyzing data

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  • What Is MDX?
  • Parts of an MDX statement
  • Writing an MDX query

Building OLAP Clients

  • Introducing the OLAP Services architecture
  • Analyzing existing cube metadata
  • Creating and populating a cellset
  • Retrieving data
  • Creating local cubes

Building Applications by Using Microsoft English Query

  • Introduction to English Query
  • Database normalization requirements
  • Creating an English Query application
  • Designing an English Query application for multidimensional databases
  • Deploying an English Query application

Maintaining a SQL Server Data Warehouse

  • Developing a maintenance plan
  • Synchronizing data
  • Maintaining SQL Server data
  • Maintaining OLAP Services data
  • Backing up and restoring databases
  • Automating administrative tasks
  • Archiving enterprise data

Managing a SQL Server Data Warehouse

  • Managing slowly changing dimensions
  • Optimizing your configuration
  • Optimizing your server configuration
  • Optimizing data warehouse performance
  • Optimizing cube design
  • Creating partitions
  • Optimizing based on usage
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