Is there any link or zip file where I could get whole MS BI warehouse project (sample) from starting to end? (2008)
Incremental load and even possible creating cubes too. What kind of problems one faced in real time projects, such things.
I could find things on you tube in parts but couldn't link it. Please help.
Rohan
I think the best reference implementation for the MS BI stack is Project REAL. According to Microsoft:
In Project REAL we are creating a reference implementation of a
business intelligence (BI) system using real large-scale data from a
real customer. The goal is to discover the best practices for creating
BI systems with SQL Server 2005 and to build a system that exhibits as
many of those best practices as we can. This project is not just a
demo —we are creating this system for ongoing operation. It is a
complete system, including daily incremental updates of the data,
large multiuser workloads, and system monitoring.
It contains:
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
You can download it here - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=12134
you can get the AdventureWorks database and datawarehouse (with the cube) here: http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/
not sure about the SSIS packages
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I know it's not a new question but maybe somebody find some documentation and/or the sql scripts and SSIS ETL used to create Adventure works DW (2014 at least).
Not sure why Microsoft released a lot about AdventureWorks for Analysis Services ( https://github.com/Microsoft/sql-server-samples/releases/tag/adventureworks-analysis-services ) but nothing for SSIS.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Adventure works DW (tables and procedures) are part of an executable which installs the SQL objects (facts and dimension) tables in the target edition of SQL Server instance.
Never has been the case to create such dimensional model using SSIS since this data is static and one-off. You may want to create SSIS artifacts on top of this DW and there are a lot of samples and workflows available online for reference.
One such repository on Git is - Repo link
We do a lot of TFS analysis and reporting in Excel, using PowerPivot to map to 'executive friendly' terms (like dates vs iterations) and they are quite please with all that. However, we also now have several TFS 'projects' (instances, versions, whathaveyou), and an Excel workbook cannot link to more than one project at a time. Also as the projects grow larger and larger, my machine struggles to process. I'd like to put the mapping tables AND the TFS data from several instances into an Access database.
Question 1
Is there any way to link Access to TFS? If not, I'm fine having TFS data in Excel and linking to Excel, but with the 'header' TFS insists on putting in your export, the linked table has issues (like not having headers in first row, and then always having two erroneous records upon every refresh).
Question 2
Any thoughts on how to get around the funky header?
There is no native way to link Ms Access to TFS or to easily get rid of the header row that's added in Excel when linking a table. I'm afraid that the direction you're seeking will not help you in the end. It will only put all the computational pressure on Access instead of Excel.
The way to go here would be to setup the TFS reporting features, which offloads a lot of the processing to SQL Server Analysis Services (which can be used as a source for Excel) and reporting is provided by SQL Server Report Server in that case.
Unfortunately, the Reporting part of TFS hasn't had a decent update since 2010 and can be a bit archaic to use. For VSTS (the cloud-based version of TFS) it's now possible to link the account to PowerBI, which does everything you're after. This feature is not available on-premise though, it may be a great reason to move to the cloud. PowerBI can handle large amounts of data, can be connected to one or more VSTS accounts and can slice and dice data from multiple accounts and projects with ease.
I need to make a ETL sync to add new data from relational database to the database DW in SSIS. It should take place in every sixth hour.
How do I do it?
What component do I need?
Where can I find more material about it in the Internet?
You'll need to build a SSIS Package using Business Intelligence Development Studio (which is installed as part of the SQL Server Development tools). You'll then need to execute that package on a server, using a scheduling mechanism of some kind (either an enterprise scheduler, cron, or a windows scheduled job).
The Microsoft website has good information about SSIS. I would also suggest reading about ETL & Data Warehousing in books by Ralph Kimball or Bill Inmon.
I have lot of data in MS Access, and for analysis I need tools. Might you suggest any tools for data mining and analysis (OLAP)?
Support for Access (and other various non-SQL Server data sources) will be included in the upcoming SQL Server 2008 R2 release (this release is focusing on self-service BI). You can follow how the project is progressing at http://blogs.msdn.com/gemini.
It depends on your data volumes the the complexity of the relationships that you want to investigate:
(1) Moderate volumes with low complexity relationships - use queries, pivot's graphs and reports in ms-access.
(2) High volume and or high complexity relationships - consider up sizing to SQL server and using the more grown-up data cubes (OLAP), stored procedures etc.
A possible solution can be Excel 2010 using the new Power Pivot Add-on.
It really depend on the type of analisys needed.
Federico
I guess your best bet would be to import your data into SQL Server using SQL Server Integration Services - should be pretty straightforward and painless.
Once in SQL Server, you have the Analysis Services at your disposal which give you all these capabilities for OLAP analysis.
I don't think there's much for MS Access directly.
Marc
If it is not too much data, import it into Excel and use the privot table functionality.
If it is too much for that then SQL Server is the way to go.
An alternative OLAP solution is to use icCube to connect directly to your MS Access file.
Please recommend books/blogs to learn adavnced SSIS (2008)
Good stuff over at SSIS Advanced Techniques and for ETL best practices in general, check out the Kimball Group (and related publications).
I would recommend this blog post which describes a SSIS package design pattern for loading a data warehouse.
It describes in detail a solution for dividing your SSIS packages into the 3 phases (Extract, Transform, Load) so that you can control and run each of them individually if necessary.
There are also many other great blogs about SSIS at http://sqlblog.com, so go there and search for SSIS.
Another advanced SSIS ressource could be the enhancement to the existing Slowly Changing Dimension Wizard in SSIS, called SSIS Dimension Merge SCD Component.