Paul Turley eBooks

More than 100 recipes to develop Business Intelligence solutions using Analysis Services Overview Develop Business Intelligence solutions using a multi-dimensional model as well as a tabular model Explore cube maintenance with partitions and design effective aggregations, as well as analyzing options for scaling analytics solutions Includes recipes for administering, securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting Analysis Services solutions In Detail Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system. As a database, it is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications. SQL Server Analysis Services adds OLAP and data mining capabilities for SQL Server databases. OLAP (onlin...

Transact-SQL, or T-SQL, is Microsoft Corporation's powerful implementation of the ANSI standard SQL database query language, which was designed to retrieve, manipulate, and add data to relational database management systems (RDBMS).You may already have a basic idea of what SQL is used for, but you may not have a good understanding of the concepts behind relational databases and the purpose of SQL. This book will help you build a solid foundation of understanding, beginning with core relational database concepts and continuing to reinforce those concepts with real-world T-SQL query applications.If you are familiar with relational database concepts but are new to Microsoft SQL Server or the T-SQL language, this book will teach you the basics from the g...

What is this book about?SQL Server Reporting Services is the customizable reporting solution for report designers and programmers. This hands-on guide will get you up to speed quickly. You can create powerful reports without programming knowledge and extend reporting solutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET.Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions, and developing deployment strategies for interacting with various platforms, this book prepares you to take full advantage of a revolutionary new tool.What does this book cover?Here are just some of the things you'll learn in this book:Details of programming reports and report scriptingAdvanced report design, including drill-down reports, nested lists, drill-through, links, ...

Learn to design more effective and sophisticated business reportsWhile most users of SQL Server Reporting Services are now comfortable designing and building simple reports, business today demands increasingly complex reporting. In this book, top Reporting Services design experts have contributed step-by-step recipes for creating various types of reports.Written by well-known SQL Server Reporting Services experts, this book gives you the tools to meet your clients' needs...

Beginning Transact-SQL with SQL Server 2000 and 2005Transact-SQL is a powerful implementation of the ANSI standard SQL database query language. In order to build effective database applications, you must gain a thorough understanding of these features. This book provides you with a comprehensive introduction to the T-SQL language and shows you how it can be used to work with both the SQL Server 2000 and 2005 releases.Beginning with an overview of the SQL Server query operations and tools that are used with T-SQL, the author goes on to explain how to design and build applications of increasing complexity. By gaining an understanding of the power of the T-SQL language, you'll be prepared to meet the ever-increasing demands of programming.What you will ...