Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by Bogdan Crivat, Jamie MacLennan and ZhaoHui Tang
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 672
- ISBN:
- 0470277742
- Product Group:
- book
- Publisher:
- John Wiley & Sons
- Publication Date:
- Nov. 7, 2008
- BooksForGeeks.com ID:
- 3949
Understand how to use the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for data mining by using the tools in Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, which will show you how to use the SQL Server Data Mining Toolset with Office 2007 to mine and analyze data.
Reviews for Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
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Great coverage
Rated out of 5 stars, June 12st, 2009
This book broadly covers not only the data mining functionality in Analysis Services but also that in Excel 2007 (which you might not even learn about if you're focusing on Analysis Services only) and provides good, hands-on examples of everything. For my background (well acquainted with SQL Server but not with BI or Excel) it suited my needs perfectly.
This book is of intermediate level, being neither an exhaustive reference of everything (get something like "Analysis Services Unleashed" for that) nor a starter book for people who know nothing about database development. And while it does cover MDX and OLAP, the focus is primarily on DMX (for data mining) and you probably won't be able to learn MDX from it -- but that's OK, because you're going to want a separate book for that anyway if the Report Services designers and Excel pivot tables can't do it for you (try "SQL Server 2008 MDX Step-by-Step", I'm having good experiences with it).