Currently reading “Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by Brian Larson”

Interesting quotes/definitions:

“Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?” asked Alice.

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.

“I don’t much care where,” said Alice.

“Then, it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

- Lewis Carroll

Planning ahead is a good idea. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.

- Anonymous

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

The Prince

- Niccolò Machiavelli

Business intelligence is the delivery of accurate, useful information to the appropriate decision makers within the necessary timeframe to support effective decision making.

Data mining uses a complex mathematical algorithm to sift through detail data to identify patterns, correlations, and clustering within the data.

Online analytical processing (OLAP) systems enable users to quickly and easily retrieve information from data, usually in a data mart, for analysis. OLAP systems present data using measures, dimensions, hierarchies, and cubes.