Jamie's Junk : Reporting Services

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!

Tree Rendering with Reporting Services - my BI Power Hour Demo

JamieMac — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:20:00 GMT

This is the end result of the report I created in under 10 minutes during the BI Power Hour at TechEd 2006. It uses a matrix report and takes advantage of the parent-child nature of data mining content to render the hierarchy.

The .rdl file for this report is attached. All you have to do is change the connection and query string to point to your server and tree as appropriate.

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

Forecasting on the fly using Analysis Services Data Mining and Reporting Services

JamieMac — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:12:00 GMT

Just found this great article on MSDN showing how to use session Time Series models in RS to forecast while generating a report. Cool beans!