The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit.. Theory meets practice

raheelr — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:04:00 GMT

I had been waiting for Amazon to send my copy of Joy Mundy's, Warren Thorntwaite and Ralph Kimball's new book and let me tell you after going through it for the past few days, I am extremely excited of the potential all customers that I work with will have as they work on their own DW/BI system initiatives.

If you ever wondered after reading a theory book how am I ever going to apply this theory to the tools that I have to work with? Well, this book answers that exact question as it takes the best of the conceptual insights from Ralph Kimball's Data Warehouse Life Cycle toolkit and walks through how to use those insights with all the components of SQL Server 2005 including ETL practice with SSIS, data modeling, OLAP, APPLIED data mining, reporting and BI applications.

Here is a link to save you the trouble to finding it on Amazon :) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471267155/sr=8-1/qid=1143313605/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4596045-3657420?%5Fencoding=UTF8

-Raheel

Reporting Services 2005 Report Packs are out..

raheelr — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:45:00 GMT

If you have not worked with the Report Packs now is the time. These Report Packs provide you with out of the box Reports for your reporting needs such as reporting on Reporting Services logs itself, Integration Services as well as Exchange and other Microsoft Dynamics components.

The SQL Server 2005 Report Packs can be downloaded from two external destination sites:

MS Downloads URL – Download SS2005 Report Packs

GotDotNet CodeGallery – : http://codegallery.gotdotnet.com/sqlrptpack (free membership)

The Report Packs are NOT supported like other Microsoft products. If you have technical questions, you are encouraged to visit the GotDotNet CodeGallery – : http://codegallery.gotdotnet.com/sqlrptpack (membership is free).

Enjoy!!

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