Other Resources by Technology

PerformancePoint Services (Dashboards, Scorecards, Advanced Analytic Charts & Grids):

SharePoint Tech Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/bb964529.aspx BI in SharePoint 2010 Tech Center: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee692578.aspx PerformancePoint Services Product Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/default.aspx

Excel (Personal Productivity):

Working with OLAP: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US/?query=excel%20olap&ac=3 Working with PivotTables: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US/?query=excel%20pivottables&ac=3 Excel Team Blogs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/excel/; http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/tags/PivotTables/default.aspx; http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/tags/Analysis+Services/default.aspx Data Mining Add-in for Excel: http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/ssdm/Default.aspx?tabid=102&Id=374

PowerPivot (Self-Service BI):

PowerPivot TechCenter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc510300.aspx (Note: this is a shared TechCenter also covering SSAS OLAP) PowerPivot Tutorial: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210628.aspx PowerPivot Code Samples: http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=powerpivot&sortBy=Relevance&tagName=%2cPowerPivot%2c&licenses=|&refinedSe arch=true Community hosted PowerPivot websites: http://powerpivotgeek.com; http://powerpivotpro.com; http://powerpivot-info.com PowerPivot Services Product Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerpivot/ PowerPivot Architecture: o http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerpivot/archive/2010/03/22/powerpivot-component-architecture.aspx o http://sqlcat.com/whitepapers/archive/2010/08/17/powerpivot-technical-diagram-powerpivot-securityarchitecture.aspx o http://sqlcat.com/whitepapers/archive/2010/04/23/powerpivot-technical-diagram-powerpivot-client-serverarchitecture.aspx

SSRS (Operational & Managed Reporting):

SSRS TechCenter: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc511478.aspx SQL Server Reporting Services Tutorials: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510784(SQL.100).aspx SSRS Code Samples: http://msftrsprodsamples.codeplex.com/ SQL Server Reporting Services Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/

SSRS Report Builder (Ad Hoc Reporting):

SSRS-RB TechCenter: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/archive/2010/07/18/report-builder-3-0-rtm.aspx download Report Builder 3.0 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d3173a87-7c0d-40cc-a4083d1a43ae4e33&displaylang=en

SSAS (OLAP):

SSAS OLAP TechCenter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc510300.aspx SQL Server Analysis Services Tutorial: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170208.aspx SSAS Code Samples: http://www.codeplex.com/MSFTASProdSamples Community hosted SSAS website: http://www.ssas-info.com

SSAS (Data Mining):


SSIS (ETL):

SSAS DM TechCenter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc510301.aspx Community hosted SSAS website http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com Data Mining Add-in for Excel: http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/ssdm/Default.aspx?tabid=102&Id=374

SSIS TechCenter: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc511477.aspx SQL Server Integration Services Tutorial: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms167031.aspx SSIS Code Samples: http://www.codeplex.com/MSFTISProdSamples ; http://ssisctc.codeplex.com/ Community Hosted SSIS websites: http://www.ssistalk.com ; http://www.sqlis.com The Data Loading Performance Guide: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd425070.aspx We Loaded 1TB in 30 Minutes with SSIS, and So Can You: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd537533.aspx Links to additional On Demand content (webcasts, videos and podcasts): http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/bi.aspx

Forums to use for researching / posting questions (typically where I look for answers first )

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sqlanalysisservices/threads/ http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldatamining/threads http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/threads http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/ppsmonitoringandanalytics/threads/ http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlkjpowerpivotforexcel/threads http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlkjpowerpointforsharepoint/threads

SQL Server TechCenter (links from here to other TechCenters like DWHS, SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, MDS, StreamInsight): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/default.aspx

SQL Customer Advisory Team Site: http://sqlcat.com a great content site for SQL DBAs as well as MSFT BI Infrastructure Professionals