1. BI: Accessing Enterprise Data
“Canned” queries using Excel, VBA and SQL

2. Critical Thinking Let me know of absences via email in advance
Easy meter

3. Automating Business Intelligence at SmallBank
Homework
Automating Business Intelligence at SmallBank

4. Back at SmallBank (better pay)
Welcome back! We missed you! Your SQL work last week was so awesome that I want to automate some of it, so that we get reports at a click of a button.
I need a way to quickly retrieve a list of our current loans to customers in VA or TX… can you do that?
Easy peasy
boss!

5. Back at SmallBank (better pay)
I will even throw in some cool extra features!
Sample shows customers

6. You do the talking Name, Major, University Learning objectives
Things you like about the class
Things that can be improved
Attitude towards the Tournament

7. How do I access my data? Tables in the RDBMS on the network
In your computer memory: tables in a DATASET
SQL Query
VBA Commands

8. What are the differences?
Tables in a RDBMS on the network
In memory DATASET
slower
faster
Speed
Fast
Faster
Slow
Volume
Very large
Medium
Small
Access
Difficult
Easy
Backup
Good
n/a
Manual
Security
Excellent
Poor
Server
Your local machine

9. Database “Legos” Standard software objects stitched together
ADO.NET ActiveX Data Object. It is a MSFT technology to manage enterprise data (on your CV)

10. ADO architecture (6 “Legos”)
Client (your machine)
Example connection string "Data Source=f-sg6m-s4.comm.virginia.edu; Initial Catalog=SmallBankDB; Integrated Security=True"
1. SqlConnection: given a connection string will connect you to a DB
DB server
Example query Select * from Customer where state = ‘VA’
2. SqlCommand: contains your SQL query
Remote RDBMS
(financial data)
3. SqlAdapter: the engine that moves the data. Fills tables in datasets using the query in SqlCommand
4. DataSet that contains 5. DataTables
6. ListObject: shows you the data in the datatable

11. What Is New In Technology?
WINIT
What Is New In Technology?

12. Suggestions
Make sure that you understand the ADO architecture diagram before coding.