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2.  Last unit of the DB/BI segment  Easy meter

3.  Name, major  Learning objectives  Things you like about the class  Things that can be improved  Attitude towards the Tournament

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5.  You are an analytic consultant at ACME Inc., a multinational company with a global presence.

6.  Divisions (e.g., Asia)  Departments (e.g., Accounting)  Categories (e.g., Compensation)  Items (e.g., Bonuses)  Month We need to figure out why we missed our global budget for the year… please find any significant variations between budgeted costs and actual costs… get the data from the DW and prepare a report on what you find We should be doing this every month…

7.  On a remote RDBMS

8. Source: TDWI Smart Companies Report 2003 + sg edits O PERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT ACME Departments (across the globe) Accounting Europe Human Resources Acme Budget Table Pivot Table YOU ACME HQ Management

9.  A pivot table is a BI tool to summarize large amount of data difficult to understand in raw format.  Must be possible to group the data  Powerful, intimidating, valuable skill

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11. UserUser Pivot Cache (in memory) Remote DBMS Pivot Table (on screen) Excel ADO.NET Objects

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