1. Report Builder as Self Service BI Solution
Jonathan Amen
Senior BI Programmer / Analyst
Sutter Physician Services

2. SQL Saturday Sacramento 2014
About Me
8 Years in Business Analysis
9 Years in SQL
BI and DBA
Experience with the entire MS BI Stack
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3. SQL Saturday Sacramento 2014
Overview – The Stack
Data Warehouse
ETL with SSIS
Cubing data with SSAS
Data Source on Report Manager
Report Builder 3 with SSRS
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4. SQL Saturday Sacramento 2014
Data Warehouse
Snowflake schema [Figure 1]
Partitioned fact tables
Surrogate keys
AW Setup Instructions
Download SQL 2012 Adventureworks DW DB File2
Attach database file
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ETL with SSIS
Parent / Child packages [Figure 2]
Queries in data flows instead of stored procedures
MERGE statement
Package configurations [Figure 3]
AW Setup Instructions
N/A (no MS download for Adventureworks SSIS)
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6. SQL Saturday Sacramento 2014
Cubing with SSAS
Partitioned cubes
Sorting DimDate
Why I don’t like hierarchies
AW Setup Instructions
DL 2012 AW Multidimensional cube project3
Open in SQL Data Tools
Configure data source and project deploy target
Deploy to SSAS server
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7. SQL Saturday Sacramento 2014
Report Manager (SSRS)
Data source for cube
User folder
User permissions
AW Setup Instructions
Create data source targeting AW cube
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8. SQL Saturday Sacramento 2014
Report Builder 3 (SSRS)
Looks like SSRS!
Dataset filtered by adding a filter attached to parameter
No SQL knowledge required
Very simple for users and BI developers
AW Setup Instructions
N/A
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9. SQL Saturday Sacramento 2014
Appendix 1
SQL Server 2012 SP1 Evaluation Edition:
SQL Server 2012 Adventureworks DW:
SQL Server 2012 SSAS Multidimensional Models:
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10. Appendix 2 Demo Install Instructions
Set up Report Manager
DBS
--- Turn off UAC and also disable it from the registry key
SSIS
SSAS
SSRS Native Mode
SQL Data Tools
Attach SQL Server 2012 Adventureworks DW DB
Set up SSIS Child / Parent Packages
Deploy Adventureworks 2012 Multidimensional cube
Make sure SSAS is using an admin level account as its service account; not the NT Service account
--- Open AW cube solution in SQL Data Tools
--- Right click project, set deploy to proper SSAS server
--- Open data source in SSAS project, and set to AdventureWorksDW2012 on proper server
--- Right click project, deploy
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11. SQL Saturday Sacramento 2014
Figure 1
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12. SQL Saturday Sacramento 2014
Figure 2 (SQL 2008)
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13. SQL Saturday Sacramento 2014
Figure 3 (SQL 2008)
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