Jamie's Junk : Integration Services

More Data Mining in the Cloud?

JamieMac — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:46:00 GMT

Since we released the Tech Preview of the Cloud Data Mining Addins last year, I've heard about and talked with Michael Zeller of Zementis. Zementis has been very active in shaping the PMML (Predictive Modeling Markup Language) standard for representing...(read more)

Cool sampling trick with Integration Services

JamieMac — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:47:00 GMT

One thing that has always been difficult with some of our advanced data mining features in SQL Server is handling nested tables. For example - how do you split or reduce data sets when you have multiple tables that have to stay in sync? How, you ask? Well we posted a neat tip at SQLServerDataMining.com that shows exactly how to do that. A sneak preview is that it looks like this:

Visit sqlserverdatamining.com for instructions and the package including sample data!

Project REAL Mining Models now available!

JamieMac — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:15:00 GMT

Len Wyatt at MS just sent out a mail indicating that all of the Project REAL work is now available here. This includes the data mining models to predict out-of-stock conditions that Paul Bradley presented at TechEd this year (Paul and his company, Apollo Data Technologies, implemented the data mining part of the solution. Additionally, in Len's words you will find

• A set of instructions for setting up the environment

• Guidance on how to explore the implementation

• A sample relational data warehouse database (a subset of the Project REAL data warehouse)

• A sample source database (from which we pull incremental updates)

• SSIS packages that implement the ETL operations

• An SSAS cube definition and scripts for processing the cube from the sample warehouse

• Sample SSRS reports

• Sample data mining models for predicting out-of-stock conditions in stores

• Sample client views in briefing books for the Proclarity and Panorama BI front-end tools

Enjoy!

BI Training in LA towards the end of June

JamieMac — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:43:00 GMT

MSEvents is hosting a hands-on lab in June where you can learn about BI for IT professionals. From this training (according to their site) you will learn how to create

An Analysis Services cube

A SQL Server 2005 Integration Services package

SQL Server Reporting Services Report

Decision Tree and Naïve Bayes Data Mining Models

A report user the new ad-hoc report tool, Report Builder

Extending Analytical Capabilities of SQL Server with SPSS

JamieMac — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:14:00 GMT

For those of you who still want more from SQL BI, you can now download the SPSS Statistical Services for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Preview which adds statistical analyses to the BI Dev Studio and some custom transforms to SQL Server Integration Services. Pretty cool - check it out