2. Treasures for Microsoft Business Intelligence, Found on CodePlex
Markus Raatz
General Manager
ixto GmbH
Session Code: DAT309

3. Codeplex – What Is It? Microsoft goes Open Source
Software-Projects from the community, including source code
Supports several licensing types:
Apache License 2.0, Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), Eclipse Public License (EPL), GNU General Public License (GPL) v2, GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL), Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL), New BSD License, The MIT License
Also last home of internal Microsoft projects that have been canceled
Source of the SQL Server samples

4. Treasure-Hunting on Codeplex
I‘ll give you this!
It‘s not like this…
…it‘s more like this!

5. BIDS Helper BI Development Studio add-in
Available for SQL 2005 and SQL 2008
Brings features of SQL 2008 to SQL 2005
Winner of the „SQL Heroes 2008“-contest on MSDN

6. BIDS Helper Analysis Services
Display Attribute Relationships
Dimension Health Check
PrinterFriendly Dimension Usage
Deploy MDX Script

7. BIDS Helper Reporting Services
Unused Dataset Reports
Derived from the .rdl-file
Delete Dataset Cache Files
Deletes all .rdl.data-files

8. BIDS Helper Integration Services
Helps finding expressions and package configurations
SSIS package deployment
No Deployment Wizard, no manifest needed

9. Business Intelligence Development Studio Helper
demo
Business Intelligence Development Studio Helper
Markus Raatz
General Manager
ixto GmbH

10. OLAP PivotTable Extensions
Add-In for Excel 2007
Enables you to create your own MDX-calculations in the client when querying a cube
Displays the MDX that Excel generated
Searching and filtering in dimensions

11. OLAP PivotTable Extensions
demo
OLAP PivotTable Extensions
Markus Raatz
General Manager
ixto GmbH

12. MDX Parameter Problem: Solution :
You have to tune Reporting Services reports against Analysis services cubes
You use SQL Server Profiler to capture the MDX statement
Profiler displays MDX query parameters in a format that is not supported by Management Studio
Solution :
MDX Parameter substitutes the parameters
Testing and debugging gets a lot easier!

13. DTLoggedExec
Replaces the original command line tool DTExec for Integration Services packages
Creates verbose logging output on the console or as a .csv file, highly configurable
Includes performance database for reporting
C:\DTLoggedExec /FILE:“C:\test1.dtsx“ /LogEvents: E,I,POE …

14. Sample Output LogProvider CSV

15. SSIS Slowly Changing Dimension component
Improved version of the „Slowly Changing Dimension“ wizard in Integration Services
Much faster for large dimensions (100x!)
More flexible in case of package modifications

16. Keep Track of History …according to Ralph Kimball
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
One of the main reasons to create a data warehouse

17. Slowly Changing Dimensions
Customer Source Table
Key
FName
LName
Married
Cars
11003
Christy
Zhu S 1
11004
Elizabeth
Johnson 4
11013
Ian
Jenkins M 3
Customer Source Table
Key
FName
LName
Married
Cars
11003
Christy
Smith M 1
11004
Elizabeth
Johnson S 2
11013
John
Jenkins 3
11100
Doe
Customer Dimension Table
Key
FName
LName
Married
Cars
11003
Christy
Zhu S 1
11004
Elizabeth
Johnson 4
11013
Ian
Jenkins M 3
Kimball SCD
11100
John
Doe M 2
11003
Christy
Smith 1
New
11004
Elizabeth
Johnson S 2
11013
John
Jenkins M 3
Updated SCD1
11003
Christy
Zhu S 1
Expired SCD2

18. Slowly Changing Dimensions
Customer Source Table
Key
FName
LName
Married
Cars
11003
Christy
Smith M 1
11004
Elizabeth
Johnson S 2
11013
John
Jenkins 3
11100
Doe
Customer Dimension Table
Key
FName
LName
Married
Cars
11003
Christy
Zhu S 1
11004
Elizabeth
Johnson 4
11013
Ian
Jenkins M 3
Kimball SCD
Customer Dimension Table ID
Key
FName
LName
Married
Cars
Active
206
11003
Christy
Zhu S 1 No
207
11004
Elizabeth
Johnson 2
Yes
208
11013
John
Jenkins M 3
815
11100
Doe
816
Smith

19. SSIS KimballSCD Component
demo
SSIS KimballSCD Component
Markus Raatz
General Manager
ixto GmbH

20. RSParamLogCache Reporting Services Parameter Logging & Caching
Tracks parameter values from report execution per user
Saves parameter values in SQL server tables
Sensitive user information is hashed
Uses them as default values for subsequent executions of the report
Provides execution statistics for caching

21. Reporting Services ParamLogCache
demo
Reporting Services ParamLogCache
Markus Raatz
General Manager
ixto GmbH

22. …and there‘s a lot more…
ReportServer Explorer
StandardCDC
2-D Matrix Builder
SSRSDeployer
PCDimNaturalize

23. Conclusion Typical for Open Source: there‘s no support…
Mostly developer tools that don‘t require support
An hour spent on Codeplex can save many days of development time
Join the community! Post something yourself!

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