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MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide

MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide

By : Rivero Esqueda
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MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide

MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide

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By: Rivero Esqueda

Overview of this book

MicroStrategy is an enterprise business intelligence application. It turns data into reports for making and executing key organization decisions. This book shows you how to implement Business Intelligence (BI) with MicroStrategy. It takes you from setting up and configuring MicroStrategy to security and administration. The book starts by detailing the different components of the MicroStrategy platform, and the key concepts of Metadata and Project Source. You will then install and configure MicroStrategy and lay down the foundations for building MicroStrategy BI solutions. By learning about objects and different object types, you will develop a strong understanding of the MicroStrategy Schema and Public Objects. With these MicroStrategy objects, you will enhance and scale your BI and Analytics solutions. Finally, you will learn about the administration, security, and monitoring of your BI solution.
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Connecting to your source – Database Instances, Connections, and Logins


The MicroStrategy Database Instance is a Configuration Object, which logically represents a source database.

The following is a quick reference table for a MicroStrategy Database Instance:

Database Instances are directly associated with MicroStrategy Projects. Each Project should have at least one Database Instance (Primary Database Instance), but it canalsobe configured with the Multisource option to connect to multiple relational data sources.

It is through this object that MicroStrategy can read tables and columns, and consequently import logical Tables into the MicroStrategy Schema. Database instances also define how and where the generated SQL will be executed.

The Database Instance contains two objects in addition to the database type. These objects are the Database Connection and Database Login.

A MicroStrategy Database Connection is necessary to associate the Database Instance to a Data Source Name (the DSN and a...

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