SQL Server Library

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 New Features

Author: Mike Otey

Published: To be published Fall 2008

Description: Take immediate advantage of the new capabilities of SQL Server 2008This book offers full details on all the innovative features and benefits available in SQL Server 2008. You will get a comprehensive overview of the new and improved enterprise data management capabilities, developer functions, Business Intelligence tools, and security enhancements. This is the perfect guide for decision-makers, developers, and DBAs preparing for upgrades or migration.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data and Analytics

Author: Doug Harts

Published: To be published Fall 2008

A practical guide to the next-generation Business Intelligence tools available in SQL Server 2008

This book will help DBAs and business intelligence architects work with the latest 3-D visualization techniques that revolutionize data reporting, analysis, and measurement in SQL Server 2008. You will appreciate the complete end-to-end explanation of the real-time visual representation of metrics and trends.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analytics and Data Visualization begins with an overview of how these new tools, acquired from Dundas, fit into the SQL Server 2008 BI stack. You will learn strategies for data mining and advanced analytics. The book explains the full range of cutting-edge data visualization tools, including several customizable charts, map solutions for geographic data, illustrative gauges, and detailed calendars. An eight-page full-color insert highlights dazzling examples of 3-D visuals that convey business metrics in innovative ways.

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Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Author: Brian Larson

Published: To be published Fall 2008

A practical guide to maximizing the Business Intelligence tools in the new SQL Server release. With help from this fully updated bestselling book, database professionals will be able to transform disparate enterprise data into actionable Business Intelligence. Covering all the new and improved BI features available in SQL Server 2008, the book shows you how to put timely, mission-critical information in the hands of employees across the organization. Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 begins with a discussion of BI, defining what it is and why it is important in today's business environment. After laying this foundation, the book works through the entire BI lifecycle: defining the analysis database; analyzing the data; mining the data; and delivering BI. Several analysis databases will be built and used for examples throughout the book.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

Author: Brian Larson

Published: To be published Fall 2008

The bestselling guide to Microsoft's number-one Business Intelligence tool--updated for the latest release This hands-on guide explains how to create, manage, and deliver traditional and interactive reports with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. You will find fully up-to-date coverage of all of the new and improved features available in this powerful server-based reporting solution.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services covers the entire report-building and distribution process, including data extraction, integration with desktop and Web applications, and end-user access. Filled with more than 60 practical, reusable report and code samples, this book helps you improve business decision-making in the organization by getting the right information to the right people at the right time.

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Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Author:  Jamie MacLennan

Published: To be published Fall 2008

This book is a major update to the popular 2005 edition—with more than 100 new pages. The new edition for SQL Server 2008 is written by key members of the SQL Server 2008 data mining team at Microsoft Data mining is the foundation of Microsoft's move into the Business Intelligence (BI) marketplace; the tutorials in this in-depth book show data analysts, data miners, and developers how to use SQL Server 2008 to solve real-world BI problems, with numerous real-world examples The book examines each of the major data mining algorithms supported by this Microsoft tool, including naive bayes, decision trees, time series, clustering, associations rules, and neural networks. Also cover integration with Office 2007, data mining diagrams, for Visio 2007, mining OLAP databases, data mining with SQL Server Integration Services 2008, and more.

This book can be preordered.