14. Outline
• Contoso Retail and Fundamentals
• Enterprise-Level Data Mining Demo for SQL Server
• What is my next step?
15. What is Contoso Retail?
• Demonstration dataset for SQL Server Database Engine
and Analysis Services
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?disp
laylang=en&FamilyID=868662dc-187a-4a85-b611-
b7df7dc909fc
16. What are the fundamentals?
•Readin’ (reading)
•‘Riting (writing)
•‘Rithmetic (arithmetic)
17. What Enterprise Tools support Data Mining?
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
• Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS)
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• PowerShell version 2
20. What is my next step?
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
(includes database engine, Analysis Services, SSMS and BIDS)
• http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/trial-software.aspx
• Microsoft Office 2010 Professional
• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try
• Powershell 2.0
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929
• Data Mining Portal and Blog
• http://www.marktab.net
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24. Conclusion
• Data mining leaders can tackle enterprise data mining
challenges with
• SQL Server Management Studio
• Business Intelligence Development Studio
• PowerShell version 2
• Become leaders of leaders of leaders
25. Where Can I Find More Information?
• http://marktab.net Data Mining Resource
• http://marktab.net/datamining Data Mining Blog
• http://sqlserverdatamining.com SQL Server Data Mining
• http://technet.microsoft.com Microsoft’s TechNet