Microsoft Business Intelligence entry: three heavyweight books are less than Microsoft's online tutorials

Recently, a project involves business intelligence and hopes to understand the basic principles and operations through reading books. However, I finally found that several heavyweight books were not comparable to Microsoft's online tutorials. The following is a detailed evaluation of these books and Microsoft online tutorials.

Article 1: SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence perfect solution, which gives a general introduction to business intelligence. My opinion is more suitable for those who are familiar with Microsoft's Business Intelligence principles and implementations. For example, if you are familiar with SQL Server 2005's Business Intelligence implementation, you can understand the situation in 2008. Unfamiliar people can use this book to understand the basic theory of business intelligence. There are many specific operations in the book, but they are not detailed enough. You cannot use this book to learn specific operations. I personally think it would be better to read this book either in detail or simply.

Article 2: Data Mining Principles and Applications (version 2nd), which describes some of the data mining plug-ins of excel2007 for data mining.Algorithm, A detailed list of various parameters and DMX scripts, but not a thorough explanation, I feel like Microsoft's bookonline, suitable for reference as a Tool Book, but it is not suitable for reading as an entry book. The last part of the book provides an example of Data Mining programming using. net.CodeFor reference in the actual project.

Article 3: proficient in SQL Server 2008ProgramDesign, the book is divided into four parts, the fourth part about business intelligence. Due to space limitations, I only talked about the implementation of one algorithm (clustering analysis) in data mining. I want to focus on the specific implementation process of various algorithms in data mining, therefore, this book does not suit my intention.

The simplest way to go back: Find the Microsoft online tutorial (Http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/bb510523.aspx). These three books are not comparable to the online tutorials. The online tutorials also explain the basic theories and principles designed in each step. Of course, they are not as good as the books. However, in terms of the specific operation steps, the online tutorial is the most clear.