20463: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Training

Name: 20463: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Training
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This Data Warehouse With Microsoft SQL Server 2014 training teach you how to implement a data warehouse to support a BI solution. This course is a five-day instructor-led course.

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Course Description

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This Data Warehouse With Microsoft SQL Server 2014 training teach you how to implement a data warehouse to support a BI solution.

This course is a five-day instructor-led course. Professional will understand how to create a data warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2014, implement ETL with SQL Server Integration Services, and validate and cleanse data with SQL Server Data Quality Services and SQL Server Master Data Services.

Data warehousing is a solution professionals use to centralize business data for reporting and analysis. This course will prepare you for exam 70-463.

This course is for professionals who are interesting in learning SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014.

It includes the new features in 2014 but also the capabilities across the SQL Server data platform.

This training is designed based on the objectives of the course variant 20463D.

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What you will learn

Describe data warehouse concepts and architecture considerations.
Select an appropriate hardware platform for a data warehouse.
Design and implement a data warehouse.
Implement Data Flow in an SSIS Package.
Implement Control Flow in an SSIS Package.
Debug and Troubleshoot SSIS packages.
Implement an ETL solution that supports incremental data extraction.
Implement an ETL solution that supports total data loading.
Implement data cleansing by using Microsoft Data Quality Services.
Implement Master Data Services to enforce data integrity.
Extend SSIS with custom scripts and components.
Deploy and Configure SSIS packages.
Describe how BI solutions can consume data from the data warehouse.

Prerequisites

At least 2 years experience of working with relational databases, including:

Designing a normalized database.
Creating tables and relationships.
Querying with Transact-SQL.
Some exposure to basic programming constructs (such as looping and branching).

An awareness of key business priorities such as revenue, profitability, and financial accounting is desirable.

Who should attend this course?

This course is intended for database professionals who need to fulfill a Business Intelligence Developer role.

They will need to focus on hands-on work creating BI solutions, including Data Warehouse implementation, ETL, and data cleansing. Primary responsibilities include:

Implementing a data warehouse.
Developing SSIS packages for data extraction, transformation, and loading.
Enforcing data integrity by using Master Data Services.
Cleansing data by using Data Quality Services.

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Microtek Learning is a Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions. This class uses official Microsoft courseware and will be delivered by a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).

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Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to Data Warehousing

This module provides an introduction to the key components of a data warehousing solution and the high-level considerations you must take into account when you embark on a data warehousing project.

Overview of Data Warehousing

Considerations for a Data Warehouse Solution

Lab: Exploring a Data Warehousing Solution

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the key elements of a data warehousing solution

Describe the key considerations for a data warehousing project

Module 2: Data Warehouse Hardware Considerations

This module discusses considerations for selecting hardware and distributing SQL Server facilities across servers.

Considerations for building a Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse Reference Architectures and Appliances

Lab: Planning Data Warehouse Infrastructure

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe key considerations for BI infrastructure.

Plan data warehouse infrastructure.

Module 3: Designing and Implementing a Data Warehouse

This module describes the key considerations for the logical design of a data warehouse, and then discusses best practices for its physical implementation.

Logical Design for a Data Warehouse

Physical design for a data warehouse

Lab: Implementing a Data Warehouse Schema

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe a process for designing a dimensional model for a data warehouse

Design dimension tables for a data warehouse

Design fact tables for a data warehouse

Design and implement effective physical data structures for a data warehouse

Module 4: Creating an ETL Solution with SSIS

This module discusses considerations for implementing an ETL process, and then focuses on Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) as a platform for building ETL solutions.

Introduction to ETL with SSIS

Exploring Data Sources

Implementing Data Flow

Lab: Implementing Data Flow in an SSIS Package

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the key features of SSIS.

Explore source data for an ETL solution.

Implement a data flow by using SSIS

Module 5: Implementing Control Flow in an SSIS Package

This module describes how to implement ETL solutions that combine multiple tasks and workflow logic.

Introduction to Control Flow

Creating Dynamic Packages

Using Containers

Managing Consistency

Lab: Implementing Control Flow in an SSIS Package

Lab: Using Transactions and Checkpoints

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Implement control flow with tasks and precedence constraints

Create dynamic packages that include variables and parameters

Use containers in a package control flow

Enforce consistency with transactions and checkpoints

Module 6: Debugging and Troubleshooting SSIS Packages

This module describes how you can debug packages to find the cause of errors that occur during execution. It then discusses the logging functionality built into SSIS that you can use to log events for troubleshooting purposes. Finally, the module describes common approaches for handling errors in control flow and data flow.

Debugging an SSIS Package

Logging SSIS Package Events

Handling Errors in an SSIS Package

Lab: Debugging and Troubleshooting an SSIS Package

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Debug an SSIS package

Implement logging for an SSIS package

Handle errors in an SSIS package

Module 7: Implementing a Data Extraction Solution

This module describes the techniques you can use to implement an incremental data warehouse refresh process.

Planning Data Extraction

Extracting Modified Data

Lab: Extracting Modified Data

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Plan data extraction

Extract modified data

Module 8: Loading Data into a Data Warehouse

This module describes the techniques you can use to implement a data warehouse load process.

Planning Data Loads

Using SSIS for Incremental Loads

Using Transact-SQL Loading Techniques

Lab: Loading a Data Warehouse

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the considerations for planning data loads.

Use SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to load new and modified data into a data warehouse.

Use Transact-SQL techniques to load data into a data warehouse.

Module 9: Enforcing Data Quality

Ensuring the high quality of data is essential if the results of data analysis are to be trusted. SQL Server 2014 includes Data Quality Services (DQS) to provide a computer-assisted process for cleansing data values, as well as identifying and removing duplicate data entities. This process reduces the workload of the data steward to a minimum while maintaining human interaction to ensure accurate results.

Introduction to Data Quality

Using Data Quality Services to Cleanse Data

Using Data Quality Services to Match Data

Lab: Cleansing Data

Lab: Deduplicating Data

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe how DQS can help you manage data quality.

Use DQS to cleanse your data.

Use DQS to match data.

Module 10: Master Data Services

Master Data Services provides a way for organizations to standardize and improve the quality, consistency, and reliability of the data that guides key business decisions. This module introduces Master Data Services and explains the benefits of using it.

Introduction to Master Data Services

Implementing a Master Data Services Model

Managing Master Data

Creating a Master Data Hub

Lab: Implementing Master Data Services

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the key concepts of Master Data Services.

Implement a Master Data Services model.

Use Master Data Services tools to manage master data.

Use Master Data Services tools to create a master data hub.

Module 11: Extending SQL Server Integration Services

This module describes the techniques you can use to extend SSIS. The module is not designed to be a comprehensive guide to developing custom SSIS solutions, but to provide an awareness of the fundamental steps required to use custom components and scripts in an ETL process, based on SSIS.

Using Scripts in SSIS

Using Custom Components in SSIS

Lab: Using Custom Scripts

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Include custom scripts in an SSIS package.

Describe how custom components can be used to extend SSIS.

Module 12: Deploying and Configuring SSIS Packages

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) provides tools that make it easy to deploy packages to another computer. The deployment tools also manage any dependencies, such as configurations and files that the package needs. In this module, you will learn how to use these tools to install packages and their dependencies on a target computer.

Overview of SSIS Deployment

Deploying SSIS Projects

Planning SSIS Package Execution

Lab: Deploying and Configuring SSIS Packages

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe considerations for SSIS deployment.

Deploy SSIS projects.

Plan SSIS package execution.

Module 13: Consuming Data in a Data Warehouse

This module introduces BI, describing the components of Microsoft SQL Server that you can use to create a BI solution, and the client tools with which users can create reports and analyze data.

Introduction to Business Intelligence

Enterprise Business Intelligence

Self-Service BI and Big Data

Lab: Using a Data Warehouse

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe BI and common BI scenarios.

Describe how a data warehouse can be used in enterprise BI scenarios.

Describe how a data warehouse can be used in self-service BI scenarios.