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Index SYMBOLs ADO.NET, 137 <> (angle brackets), SSRS mock-ups, 345 SSIS, 195 <<>> (angle brackets-double), SSRS SSRS, 330 mock-ups, 345 Adventure Works Cycles, 6 \\ \\ (back slashes), SSRS mock-ups, 345 bus matrix, 21 – 22, 36 – 37 { } (curly brackets), SSRS mock-ups, 345 data mining, 472 – 488 ( ) (parentheses), SSRS mock-ups, 345 dimensions, 69 – 72 + (plus sign), ETL schematics, 191 attributes, 72 – 74 [ ] (square brackets), SSRS mock-ups, 345 dimensional model, 69 – 78 SCDs, 75 – 76 A enterprise-level business requirements accumulating snapshots, 52 – 53 documentation, 19 – 20 ETL facts, 72 – 74, 76 – 77 fact providers, 238 interview documentation, 16 fact table, 229 preparation, 12 – 13 partitions, 229 prioritization grid, 23 SSAS cubes, 229 project planning, 26 – 27 actions, 288 – 289 SharePoint BI portal, 405 – 406 Active Directory, 185, 530 SSRS template, 353 metadata, 535 subcategory tables, 50 SharePoint affinity grouping, 436 BI portal, 419COPYRIGHTEDaggregates MATERIAL security, 396 dimensional model, 53 – 54 SSAS, 506 ETL, 190 Windows Integrated Security, 496 fact providers, 238 – 239 Activity Monitor, 588 – 590 fact table, 239 Activity Viewer, 593 MDX, 53 ad hoc reporting, 369 – 372 OLAP, 53 Excel, 377 SSAS, 53, 239 PivotTable, 377 tables, relational databases, 150 – 151 Add Business Intelligence Wizard, 268 usage complexity, 103 additivity, 32 625 640388bindex.indd 625 1/31/11 6:44:40 PM 626 Index n A–B aggregate dimensions ASP.NET, 131 dimensional model, 49 – 51 association, 436, 449 ETL, 50 atomic level, 33 SSAS, 51 attributes, 72 – 74 Aggregation Design Wizard, 297 – 298 conformed, 169 aggregations degenerate dimensions, 43 cubes, 292 dimensions, 34 performance Adventure Works Cycles, 72 – 74 real-time, 310 – 311 dimensional model, 65 – 66 SSAS OLAP, 296 – 298 surrogate keys, 39 query performance, 248 – 249 domains, 182 SSAS OLAP, 248 – 249, 296 – 298 ETL dimension manager, 238 agile software development, 5 freeform, 183 algorithms, 432 incomplete, 167 – 168 business tasks, 438 – 439 junk dimensions, 51, 224 classification, 434 MDS, 179 clustering, 436 – 437 properties, 266 – 267 data mining, 445 – 450 SCDs, 40 estimation, 435 SSAS OLAP, 262 – 263, 266 – 267, 270 – 273 hashing, 499 standard dimensions, 258 – 259 All(), 388 – 389 audit columns allocations, 76 ETL, 200 ALTER DATABASE, 155 source systems, 200 ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION, 162 audit dimension, 141 alternate access mapping, 415 ETL, 215 – 216 Analysis Management Objects (AMO), 528 FK, 215 data mining, 443 – 444 master packages, 215 .NET, 532 SSIS packages, 215 SSAS, 569 audit keys, 215 Analysis Services. See SQL Server Analysis authentication Services Kerberos, 505 analytics SharePoint BI portal, 420 application developer, 120 SQL Server, 504 bus matrix, 21 Windows Integrated Security, 496 business requirements, 15 mashup, 381 B PowerPivot, 385 – 387, 399 backups SSRS, 326 compression, 145 announcements, 408 deployment, 565 anomaly detection, 438 ETL, 240 architecture planning, 606 – 610 data mining, 445 relational databases, 606 – 608 dimensional model, 58 SSAS, 569, 609 – 610 NUMA, 109 SSIS, 608 – 609 PowerPivot, 378 – 380 SSRS, 610 SharePoint BI portal, 412 – 416 Bayesian method, 445 SQL Server data mining, 440 – 445 BCG. See Boston Consulting Group SSIS packages, 197 – 198 Berry, Michael J.A., 433, 450 SSRS, 330 – 332 BETWEEN, 140, 237 archiving BETWEEN RowStartDate and data extraction, 203 RowEndDate, 237 ETL, 190 640388bindex.indd 626 1/31/11 6:44:40 PM Index n B 627 BI applications Browser, Dimension Designer, 273 – 274 Business Dimensional Lifecycle, 617 bubble charts, 65 extending, 586 – 587 bulk loads, 204 – 206 SSRS, 323 – 373 bus matrix, 18 value, 326 – 328 Adventure Works Cycles, 21 – 22, 36 – 37 BI portal analytics, 21 announcements, 408 business processes, 20 – 21 architecture, 412 – 416 dimensional model, 36 – 38 building, 409 – 411 enterprise-level business requirements, 38 Business Dimensional Lifecycle, 617 Business Dimensional Lifecycle, 136, 584 business processes, 407 – 408 BI applications, 617 calendars, 408 BI portal, 617 completing, 424 – 425 business requirements, 616 feedback, 409 databases, 616 – 617 forum, 408 deployment, 618 hierarchies, 405 phases, 615 – 619 HTML, 411 problems, 615 – 619 maintenance, 585 – 586 SSAS, 245 – 246 metadata, 408 Business Intelligence Development Studio personalization, 408 (BIDS), 79, 81, 95 – 97 planning, 405 – 411 BIDS Helper, 193, 528 – 529, 548 search, 408 SSAS, 570 SharePoint, 403 – 427 hierarchies, 95 Active Directory, 419 Preview tab, 356 announcements, 408 Report Designer, 130, 333 architecture, 412 – 416 SSAS, 95, 117, 253 authentication, 420 SSIS, 95, 611 building, 409 – 411 SSRS, 95, 356 business processes, 407 – 408 Visual Studio, 88, 95, 549 calendars, 408 Business Intelligence Wizard, 286 – 287 feedback, 409 business keys, 39 forum, 408 business metadata, 525 hierarchies, 405 Business Objects, 501 HTML, 411 business phase, data mining, 451 – 453 metadata, 408 business processes, 9 – 10 personalization, 408 bridge tables, 47 planning, 405 – 411, 419 – 420 bus matrix, 20 – 21 product keys, 419 business requirements document, 18 – 19 search, 408 dimensional model, 29 – 78 SharePoint, 403 – 427 interviews, 10, 15, 17 templates, 425 – 426 Kimball Lifecycle, 18 testing, 421 – 426 prioritization, 23, 25 versions, 419 SharePoint BI portal, 407 – 408 BIDS. See Business Intelligence summary, 18 Development Studio business requirements, 3 – 28 BIDS Helper, 193, 528 – 529, 548 analytics, 15 SSAS, 570 Business Dimensional Lifecycle, 616 Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 24 data profiling, 16 bridge tables, 45 dimensional model, 56 – 57 business processes, 47 documentation, 18 – 22 dimensions, 46 enterprise-level, 8 – 22 multi-valued dimensions, ETL, 235 ETL, 189 SSIS, 235 executive dashboard, 19 640388bindex.indd 627 1/31/11 6:44:40 PM 628 Index n B–C group sessions, 27 classification interviews, 13 – 15, 17 algorithm, 44 Kimball Lifecycle, 4 data mining, 434 prioritization, 22 – 25 classification matrix, 458 – 459 project planning, 25 – 28 Clay, Ryan, 514 scorecards, 19 cleaning. See data cleaning sponsorship, 7 – 8 closed loop applications, 587 SSRS, 328 – 330 SSRS, 326 strategic goals, 14 clustering, 436 – 437, 448 value, 5 – 22 COBOL, 202 business review, data mining, 460 Cognos, 501 business rules columns. See also specific column types error tables, 214 DSV, 256 screens, 207 error tables, 214 business task summary, 438 – 439 extended properties, 142 bXtrctOK, 213 PivotTable databases, 390 – 391 PK, 223 C relational databases, 137 cache renaming, 210 PowerPivot, 396 sorting, dimension tables, 141 proactive, 292, 319 column screens, 206 uncached lookups, 237 transforms, 207 CALCULATE(), 387 – 389 Command Line Actions, 289 calculations Command transform, OLE DB, 228, 234 cubes, 282 – 286 Common Warehouse Metamodel MDX, 284 – 286 (CWM), 527 PivotTable, 386 – 387 compliance, 189, 243 PowerPivot, 386 – 387 compression. See data compression SSAS OLAP, 248 computed columns, PivotTable Calculations tab, Cube Designer, 283 – 284 databases, 390 – 391 calendars, 408 concatenated keys, 269 Cascading Lookups conditional formatting derived column transforms, 237 Excel, 397 late arriving data handler, 236 SSRS, 330, 365 surrogate key pipeline, 230 – 232, 237 – 238 The Conditions of Learning and Theory of case, 432 Instruction (Gagné), 578 case sets, 432, 455 – 456 Configuration Manager cast, 211 SQL Server, 123 CDC. See change data capture SSRS, 131 cell security, 512 – 513 conformed attributes, 169 Census Bureau, 40, 381 conformed dimensions, 21, 33 Central Administration, 398, 423 dimensional model, 36 – 38 change data capture (CDC) master data, 169 ETL, 200 – 202 shrunken dimensions, 225 replication, 201 conformed facts, 77 Change Tracking, 136, 198, 387 conforming. See data conforming ETL, 201 consolidated requirements, 18 char, 139 constraints, relational databases, 142 – 153 eckSignatureOnLoad, 520 Content Manager, 503 child packages, 198 continuous variables, 432 – 433 audit keys, 215 control flow precedence arrows, 197 CoSort, 242 640388bindex.indd 628 1/31/11 6:44:40 PM Index n C–D 629 COUNT(), 387 halting package execution, 211 – 214 COUNTA(), 387 nulls, 207 COUNTROWS(), 387 SSIS transforms, 211 CRC. See cyclic redundancy checksum surrogate keys, 230 CREATE, 609 data compression CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION, 155 – 156 backups, 145 CREATE TABLE, 152 – 153 pages, 144 – 145 credentials, 504 relational databases, 144 – 145 CRISP. See Cross Industry Standard Process rows, 144 for Data Mining SQL Server, 144 Cross Industry Standard Process for Data data conforming Mining (CRISP), 450 data mining, 453 – 454 Cross Validation, 459 dimensions, 217 CSV, 331, 338 drill across, 217 – 218 cubes ETL, 217 – 218 aggregations, 292 fact table, 230 calculations, 282 – 286 SSIS packages, 217 dimensions, 278 surrogate keys, 230 ETL, 190 data definition language (DDL), 137 OLAP, 239 indexes, 153 measures, 359 permissions, 518 OLAP data destinations, 196 ETL, 239 data extensions, 330 SSAS, 250 – 252, 262, 274 – 291, 299 data extraction PowerPivot, 396 archiving, 203 properties, 278 – 279 data flow, 203 SSAS, 507 ETL, 199 – 206 accumulating snapshots, 229 packages, 202 OLAP, 250 – 252, 262, 274 – 291, 299 push model, 202 Cube Designer, 275 – 276 transforms, 202 Calculations tab, 283 – 284 data flow Partitions and Aggregations tab, 289 data cleaning, 207 – 211 Cube Wizard, 262, 275 data destinations, 196 customer segmentation, 436 – 437 data extraction, 203 CWM. See Common Warehouse Metamodel data sources, 196 cyclic