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Background Design Integration Services Analysis Services Report Services Future Considerations
Background
A suitable project: FishLog – Non-trivial– Not related to any sensitive data– A reporting intensive application
FishLog– A collection of fishing related data
Fish Location Techniques Equipment
Background (cont’d)
FishLog Background– 1995 - Started as a collection of flat files organized with Visual
REXX on OS/2.– 2000 - Migrated to VisualAge Smalltalk on Windows.
Retained flat file structure. Enhanced flat file structure with self defining features. Added XML support to notes structure.
– Mar 2009 - Migrated flat files to a MySQL RDBMS on Linux. New PHP code to convert flat files into a .csv format. Existing Java code to manipulate .csv files.
– Aug 2009 – Use .CSV files as input to SSIS processes.
Design
Used DBDesigner to create ER diagrams and DDL.
– Naming conventions slightly different than Visio but still acceptable to SSIS.
Lifted layout from flat file structure.
Integration Services
Used SSIS to load AS database tables from .CSV files created from flat files.
Integration Services (cont’d)
Used a “package of packages” to load AS database.
Analysis Services
Build a cube from AS database.
One calculated member.
Three dimensional hierachies.
– Dates– Baits– Locations
Report Services
Summary reports.– Year to Year Data– Yearly Summaries– …
Report Services (cont’d)
Detailed reports.– Fish by Bait
“What will they hit?”
– Bait by Fish “What will this catch?” Is this fly worth tying?”
– Fish by Location “What can you catch
here?”
– Location by Fish “Where do I go to find
some …?”
– …
Future Considerations
Dimensional Updates Data Mining Extensions More Reports More Success …