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Take Your SQL Skills To The Next Level With These Popular SQL Books

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Business leaders, developers, data heads, and tech enthusiasts – it’s time to make some room on your business intelligence bookshelf because once again, datapine has new books for you to add. Now it’s time to ponder over our hand-picked list of the 20 best SQL learning books available today.

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Introduction To The Basic Business Intelligence Concepts

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This concept is known as business intelligence. Business intelligence, or “BI” for short, is becoming increasingly prevalent across industries each year. But with business intelligence concepts comes a great deal of confusion, and ultimately – unnecessary industry jargon. Learn here! But more on that later.

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A Guide To Starting A Career In Business Intelligence & The BI Skills You Need

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4) Business Intelligence Job Roles. Does data excite, inspire, or even amaze you? Do you find computer science and its applications within the business world more than interesting? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may want to consider a career in business intelligence (BI).In

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. The data sources used by a DSS could include relational data sources, cubes, data warehouses, electronic health records (EHRs), revenue projections, sales projections, and more.

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Watch Out for Business Intelligence "Gotchas"

Howard Dresner

I kicked off a recent discussion with this question to the group: “What are the top five worst practices in business intelligence?” I certainly don’t want to minimize the great successes organizations are having with business intelligence. It took only a few minutes for them to toss out a lot more than five.

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Combine transactional, streaming, and third-party data on Amazon Redshift for financial services

AWS Big Data

Regulators have placed an increased focus to both protect the consumer through transaction reporting (typically T+1, meaning 1 business day after the trade date) and increase transparency into markets via near-real-time trade reporting requirements. This will be your OLTP data store for transactional data. version cluster.

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How Macmillan Publishers authored success using IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM Big Data Hub

If you’re a reader, chances are good you’ve read a book from Macmillan. It’s no wonder then that Macmillan needs sophisticated business intelligence (BI) and data analytics. This data is leveraged by departments throughout the organization and is essential to their business operations.