Downloads

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for Developers
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online
  
• Table Analysis Tools for the Cloud
  
• Data Mining Partners
  

More downloads…

White Papers and Articles

Microsoft White Papers

• SQL Server 2008: Predictive Analytics for the Retail Industry
  Learn how to use SQL Server 2008 to predict customer behavior.

Microsoft Articles

• Creating Filters for Mining Models explains the benefits of filters and teaches you how to build, use, and manage filters on mining models
• Programmatically Generating Prediction Queries for Nested Table Models by the SQL Server Data Mining team
• Explore the Time Series Enhancements by the SQL Server Data Mining team

Community Articles

• Microsoft Business Intelligence with Numerical Libraries
  Visual Numerics integrates third-party data mining algorithms into Analysis Services.

Videos

Microsoft

• Getting Started with the Data Mining Add-ins for Excel
• Analyze Key Influencers Video Tutorial (Data Mining Add-in for Excel)
• Fill from Example Video Tutorial (Data Mining Table Analysis Tool)
• Forecast Video Tutorial (Data Mining Table Analysis Tool)
• Highlight Exceptions Video Tutorial (Data Mining Table Analysis Tool)
• Prediction Calculator Video Tutorial (Data Mining Table Analysis Tool)
• Shopping Basket Analysis Video Tutorial (Data Mining Table Analysis Tool)
• Scenario Analysis – What If Video Tutorial (Data Mining Add-in for Excel)
• Scenario Analysis - Goal Seek Video Tutorial (Data Mining Add-in for Excel)

Community

• Data Mining with Excel in Four Minutes
• Introducing Data Mining
• Introducing the Table Analysis Tools for Excel 2007

Microsoft Podcasts and Webcasts

Microsoft

• How Do I BI webcast series - including many data mining webcasts
• Mining for Quality: Apply Adaptive Data Quality with SQL Server Data Mining (Level 200)
• SQL Server Data Mining webcast series
• Building and Validating Advanced Mining Models with SQL Server 2008 Data Mining
• Mastering Time Series Predictions with SQL Server 2008 Data Mining
• Preparing Data for Use with SQL Server Data Mining
• Denny Lee from SQL CAT: Data Mining applied to medical research

Community

• Data Mining and BI for Enterprises

Documentation

• Books Online: SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services – Data Mining
  
• Books Online: SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
  
• DMX Reference
  

Knowledge Base

• Search the Knowledge Base for “Data Mining”
  

Code Samples and Public Projects

Product Team Samples

• Samples from the Microsoft Analysis Services product team
• Data Mining Web Controls Library
  Browse complex mining models from any computer that has Microsoft Internet Explorer installed.
• Thin Client Viewing with Visio 2007
  Render your graphical views from SQL Server Data Mining as Visio diagrams.

Government Samples

• http://www.bls.gov/data/  Bureau of Labor Statistics
• http://www.census.gov/ Census Bureau

Search

• Search CodePlex projects for data mining content
• Search Code Gallery for data mining content

Blog Postings

• Data Mining in the Cloud
  

  by MVP Brian Knight.

• Text Data Mining on Mosha's blog
  

  See how MVP Thomas Ivarsson performs text mining on Mosha Pasumansky's MDX blog posts.

• Querying like the Data Mining viewers do
  

  Jamie MacLennan explains how the DM viewers get the data to display on screen.
  

• Logistic Regression Scorecard
  

  by Dejan Sarka of Solid Quality Mentors.

• Index Fragmentation Findings: Part 2, Size Matters
  

  by MVP Brent Ozar, who uses data mining to make sense of his findings.

• Those Kids Won’t Eat Anything
  

  by Jamie MacLennan, who uses Cloud Data Mining Service and Prediction Calculator while grocery shopping.

• Querying Rules and Itemsets (like the Data Mining Viewers do)
  

  by Sr Engineer Bogdan Crivat.

• Armory Data Mining
  

  data mining of World of WarCraft data.

MSDN Forums

• SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
  
• Data Mining
  
• SQL Server Documentation
  
• More SQL Server forums
  

Websites

• SQL Server Data Mining
  The product team uses this site to answer technical issues.
• Learn Microsoft BI
  A site with lots of Analysis Services information.
• Data Mining on SQLServerCentral
  Data mining articles, scripts, and forums at SQLServerCentral.com.
• BeyeNETWORK
  Free resources for business intelligence professionals.
• UCI KDD Archive
  A permanent repository of publicly-accessible data sets for data mining testing and research.

Books

• Data Mining with SQL Server 2008
  by Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, and Bogdan Crivat (Paperback—November 17, 2008)
• Professional SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services with MDX
  by Sivakumar Harinath, Robert Zare, Sethu Meenakshisundaram, Matt Carroll, Denny Guang-Yeu Lee (Paperback -  March 23, 2009)
• The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit: With SQL Server 2005 and the Microsoft Business Intelligence Toolset
  by Joy Mundy, Warren Thornthwaite, and Ralph Kimball (Paperback -- February 13, 2006)
• Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 (PRO-Developer)
  by Lynn Langit, Kevin S. Goff, Davide Mauri, and Sahil Malik (Paperback - Feb 4, 2009)