SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Reference List

Getting started with BI

--My book - "Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence" APress - http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Server-2005-Business-Intelligence/dp/1590598342

--Project Real - reference implementation - http://www.microsoft.com/sql/solutions/bi/projectreal.mspx

--BI case studies - http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/casestudies/cs-dw.mspx

Getting started with Data Mining

--Jamie and ZhaoHui's book - "Data Mining with SQL Server 2005" - http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-SQL-Server-2005/dp/0471462616

--Standards group for Data Mining - http://www.dmg.org/

--SQL Server Data Mining FAQ - http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/DMCommunity/FAQ/default.aspx

Using Microsoft's Data Mining Tools

--Start  here - http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/dm/default.mspx

--Webcast - intro to DM - http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032289986&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

--SQL Server Data Mining - http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/DMCommunity/

--JamieMac's blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/jamiemac/default.aspx

--my geekSpeak on using the Excel Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 - http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=319466

--DM add-ins for Office 2007 - downloads, webcasts and virtual lab - http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/dm/addins.mspx and

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032346458&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

--Data Mining webcasts - http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/DMCommunity/Webcasts/default.aspx

--Data Mining on MSDN - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/Aa336311.aspx

--Data Mining programmability - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345148.aspx and

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345133.aspx

--DMX language reference - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms132058.aspx

General  Data Mining information

--KDNuggets - http://www.kdnuggets.com/index.html