DMX Posting Digest

OK, I promised a digest of all the great postings past – really, I’ll leave out the rather lame ones.  I figure I’ll start out with all of the DMX related posts.  Interestingly enough I see that never in any posting did I ever really introduce DMX – Data Mining eXtensions to SQL!  What a jerk – I must have been trying to sell a book or something.  In any case, here are the relevant DMX postings with some descriptions so you don’t have to actually go to the old blog for things that aren’t interesting.  Maybe after these digest thingies are done, I can start from the beginning, so to speak.

These are most of the postings dealing with DMX.  Some postings that are more “code-like” I’m saving for a future digest article.

 

To (a) or not to (a), that is the question- This posting demonstrates a neat modeling trick for transforming a multinomial target into a series of binomials

Time Series Prediction – discusses the tricky nature of getting deviation information from the time series algorithm.  PROTIP – the posting is really just a redirect to this SQLServerDataMining.com article I wrote.

Predicting the non-majority state – demonstrates how to specify a threshold probability for “true” using DMX

Predict based on rules alone – shows how to filter Association Rules prediction queries to only show results that are based on learned rules and not simple popularity.

Predicting based on rules alone and getting everything you always wanted – Modifies the query in the previous post to use the TopCount function to filter the result set so you get the right number of results (assuming those results exist in the model).

Executing multiple DMX statements from SSMS – Not really a “DMX” post, but a useful one that likely won’t show up in any other digest.  Shows how to use SQL Server Management studio to execute multiple statements, essentially allowing you to create DMX “scripts”.

New DMX Syntax option in SQL Server SP2 – Shows the DMX generalization introduced in SQL Server 2005 SP2 (also in SQL Server 2008) that allows you to bind DMX function parameters to variables or even input columns.

Getting Data Mining results into SQL Tables – Demonstrates how to directly import the results of a DMX query into a SQL table – no middleman (that’s you SSIS!) required.

Querying the Dependency Net – Not particularly DMX, but it shows you how to call the stored procedure to get the information displayed in the dependency network view.

Unwinding MDX Flattening Semantics with DMX – And finally – totally NOT DMX, but there will never be another place for this great trick showing how to better understand MDX semantics by shoving the result through a DMX query!

Enjoy, and come back for future digests – I think the next one will be CODE….