Kimball University
Kimball University has 4 day course "Microsoft Data Warehouse in Depth".
With SQL Server 2005, Microsoft provides a complete suite of tools for you to build data warehouse and business intelligence systems using software from a single vendor. This course prepares you to deal with the many facets of developing, deploying, operating, and growing your Microsoft data warehouse system.
Taught by Joy Mundy and Warren Thornthwaite, co-authors of the newly published Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit, this lecture and demo course will provide you a detailed technical introduction to building a Microsoft data warehouse / business intelligence system that meets the needs of your business users. The class will provide Microsoft-specific detailed guidance for working through the data warehouse lifecycle, from requirements gathering and design through the ETL system, relational data warehouse, OLAP and data mining applications, to reporting and other BI applications. We’ll discuss issues around deploying, operating, and securing the Microsoft data warehouse system. This course covers a lot of material in a short time.