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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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 …

Sample Output LogProvider CSV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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