A resurgence in interest in data mining has led to the publication of a large number of books in the field. Many are of a general nature, others are concerned with the detail of the technologies for data mining that have been developed and are being projected. Interest multiplied as soon as Microsoft introduced, in about 2000, a new feature of its Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services which provided for data mining. The ability to deal with data are essential in a modern computing system and this book is designed to cover “all the practicalities required to integrate a third‐party data mining algorithm” when using SQL Server 2000.
Although, we are told, the book was compiled for use by data mining researchers, it is also suggested as a teaching text for IT master and doctorate courses. Even so, information technology workers, cyberneticians and systemists will benefit from reading it before embarking on projects in data mining that require use of SQL Server 2000.
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