I have just downloaded and installed the SQL Server Express Edition 2005. But I dont know, which tool I have to download for Reporting Services (RSS). i.e. Like in the SQL 2000, we use the Reporting Services.
Please guide me.
Thanks!
Rana Khan

1) Lift Chart seems to fail to support multiple models.
I have one structure that entail three models, of which,
the two models of tree and clustering work individually.
In other words, when only one model is selected Lift Chart

  I'm writing a thesis about the plug-in DM algorithm in SQL Server
2005.But the first section is the reason why we should use  SQL Server 2005
instead of DB2 or Oracle.
  Would anyone be so kind to give some hints?Any help will be

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I am implementing Web site functionality whereby a user who enters a string
(which will usually not contain spaces/words) will be presented with the
nearest pre-existing string that matches their entry.  Ideally, from what
I've seen of SQL Server 2005's functionality, I would ...

Thanks for everything. You have been most help and knowledgable in my request. I appreciate the straight forward and confident responses.

Right now I am developing a proposal for the purchase of a data mining solution for my organization. We are running SQL2000 and I would like to recommend SQL2005 as the solution. However, my concern is that new algorithms do not perform on our data as good as using other data ...

Quick question,
a model has several attributes from a same table, say,
income, houseOwnership, marital_status etc. are all from DimCustomer table,
then SaleTotal is from FactSales table.

1. How to EDIT/CHANGE NUM of Clusters (seems defaults to 10)
2. LIFT CHART for 2+ models instead of current model, how?
3. using Clustering model, input includes firstName and lastName,
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im trying to order a varchar fild in sql 2000, but i need it in numeric
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I am trying to learn association algorithm by practicing the following
problem.
There are 2 tables customer and customer contact. customer contact contains
who is trying to contact who. For example in the following, brad pit contact

So far, I have been using wizards for creating different models based on
decision tree or naieve bayes etc. But I would like to hand code the model as
shown in data mining book for ss2k5. I tried navigating the menus and could
not view the actual text code of my generated models? ...

I'm trying to create a data mining model to allow me to predict response
rates for a mail shot, based on the response to many other mailshots,
and hence to generate the next mailing list.
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In all earnestness, I have a few quick comments/questions about dm with sql
server 2005.  But let me say this first, overall, they seem very impressive.
1) C: Model View
Nice, but the Legend at bottom, imho,

Do you have any cases using DM on retailers customer and prospect database?
Do you have any additional info regarding DM for retailers?