SQL Server OLAP, DTS, Data Warehousing, Cubes / Analysis Services Training UK

The course covers the main aspects of designing and building data warehouses using SQL Server 2000 or 2005 and Analysis Services. It demonstrates how to construct star schemas in SQL Server and cubes in Analysis Services. In addition, it shows how to use DTS (Data Transformation Services) to migrate and transform data. This is applied to populating OLAP star schemas and cubes from traditional normalised databases.


Overview
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This course builds upon several sections of the programming course.
Available as a public or closed course at our London training centre, or can be tailored to your team's requirements and delivered onsite as a bespoke, customised training course.

 

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Course Summary:
OLAP, DTS, Data Warehousing,
Cubes / Analysis Services

What You Will Learn
By the end of the course delegates will gain:

  • A thorough understanding of the need for data warehouses
  • A practical guide to building star schemas and cubes
  • An introduction to some of the main features in DTS
  • How to use DTS to transform data into star schemas and cubes

  • Course Content

    Course content has been developed for real-world, commercial scenarios by our expert instructors. See below for detailed syllabus, or if you have a technical query email .

    Duration
    4 Days

    Target Audience
    Anyone interested in getting raw data to the end user as information that has integrity, is retrieved quickly, and requires little or no programming.

    Pre Requisite Skills
    Delegates should have a good background knowledge of SQL Server.

     

    SQL Server OLAP, DTS, Data Warehousing,
    Cubes / Analysis Services Training Course Outline

    Database design

    Review of third normal form and traditional OLTP databases
    Introduction to designing OLAP star schemas
    Intorduction to designing cubes

    Analysis Services

    Building fact tables
    Building dimensions
    Building cubes

    PivotTables

    Browsing cubes in Analysis Manager
    Browsing cubes in Excel
    Browsing cubes in web pages

    Maintaining data warehouses

    Backup and restore of star schemas
    Backup and restore of cubes
    Cube security
    Updating cubes

    DTS (Data Transformation Servives)

    Guided tour of DTS Designer
    Using DTS Wizards
    Using DTS Designer

    DTS and data warehousing

    Using DTS to normalise data
    Using DTS to denormalise data
    Using DTS to process cubes


    DTS programming

    DTS and TSQL (Transact SQL)
    DTS and VB Script

    Running DTS

    Scheduling DTS packages
    Running from stored procedures
    Running from Visual Basic

    Saving and securing DTS packages

    Saving to SQL Server
    Saving to file
    Saving to Visual Basic

    DTS error handling

    Log files
    Error files
    Exception files


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    SQL Server 2008 Comprehensive Upgrade Training Course for existing SQL Server 2000 / SQL Server 2005 users

    SQL Server 2000 Applications Development training
    SQL Server 2000 Database Administration
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    SQL Design and Information Retrieval

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