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This course will discuss the various methods and best practices that are in line with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Power BI. The course will also show how to access and process data from a range of data sources including both relational and non-relational data. This course will also explore how to implement proper security standards and pol...

Analysis Services is a combination of two analytical engines (VertiPaq for multidimensional cubes and Data Mining and xVelocity for Tabular Data Models) used in decision support and business analytics. It provides enterprise-grade semantic data model capabilities for business intelligence (BI), data analysis, and reporting applications such as Power BI, Excel, Reporting Services, and other data vi...

With this course, students can learn about SQL Server installation, data storage, data recovery, monitoring, security, and maintenance. Instructor James Ring-Howell brings with him over 40 years of applicable IT experience and has taught technical courses for over two decades. This Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Admin course is specifically for obtaining working IT skills and is not certification-speci...

This course provides students with the technical skills required to write basic Transact-SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server. You will learn how to write queries that return data from tables as well as create, update, or delete data in a database. These queries will allow filtering and sorting and effectively use the various data types provided by SQL Server. This course also covers the use of dy...

This course will discuss the responsibilities and functions of a data analyst. Which includes the various methods and best practices that are in line with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Power BI. The course will also show how to access and process data from a range of data sources including both relational and non-relational data. This course...

This course focuses on one of SQL Server 2019’s most impactful features—Big Data Clusters. You will learn about data virtualization and data lakes for this complete artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform within the SQL Server database engine. You will be shown how to use Big Data Clusters to combine large volumes of streaming data for analysis along with data...

This course is preparation for the 70-463 Implementing a Data Warehouse with SQL Server 2012 exam. The course covers topics that are featured on the exam, such as how to implement a data warehouse platform to support a BI solution, how to create a data warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012, implement ETL with SQL Server Integration Services, and validate and cleanse data with SQL...

This course provides students with the technical skills required to be prepared for the 70-461 Querying SQL Server 2012 exam. Students will acquire the skills to write basic Transact-SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2012, which is the foundation for all SQL Server-related disciplines; namely Database Administration, Database Development and Business Intelligence. \n \nTo see more Micro...

This course prepares students for the Microsoft 70-466: Implementing Data Models & Reports with SQL Server 2012 exam. The course focuses on creating managed enterprise BI solutions and covers how to implement multidimensional and tabular data models, deliver reports with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, create dashboards with Microsoft SharePoint Server Performance Point Servic...

This course prepares students for the Microsoft 70-465 Designing Database Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 exam. The course teaches students how to  plan and implement enterprise database infrastructure solutions by using SQL Server 2012 and other Microsoft technologies. The course describes how to consolidate SQL Server workloads, work with both on-premises and Microsoft Azu...