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Perfmon and Profiler 201:Slicing and Dicing Results

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Brent Ozar• SQL Server Expert

for Quest Software• Editor-in-Chief at

SQLServerPedia• Former SQL DBA, SAN,

VM admin• Specializes in

performance tuning

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Today’s Agenda

• Why Use Data Mining?• Demos In Action• Resources and Q&A

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Data mining

is the process of extracting hidden

patterns from data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining

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Data Mining From 50,000 Feet• Get the data• Cleanse it• Load it• Pick algorithms• Build a model• Interpret results

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Data Mining From 50,000 Feet• Get the data• Cleanse it• Load it• Pick algorithms• Build a model• Interpret results

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Data Mining for Dropouts

www.SQLServerDataMining.com

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Demo Time• ClearTrace• Data Mining in Excel

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Date/Time Fields• Weekday/weekend• Business hours• Holidays

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You Still DO Have To…• Get the data• Cleanse it• Load it• Pick algorithms• Build a model• Interpret results

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http://www.BrentOzar.com/go/mining

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http://SQLServerPedia.com

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