Carlos Bossy (3/21/2012)

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I'm glad I could help so it's good to hear this has been useful.

With decision trees arriving at the same answer using multiple paths, the paths are not...

Carlos Bossy (3/21/2012)

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John,

I'm not sure you can get exactly what you want so I'm trying to suggest the closest you can come to it. This is where you can...

sbelche-760308 (3/21/2012)

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This is a pretty good book with all the basics.

http://www.marktab.net/datamining/index.php/2010/11/05/data-mining-for-business-intelligence-book-review/

Also, for SQL specific Data Mining for SQL Server 2005 (although I believe that the 2008 edition is out). ...

Carlos Bossy (3/21/2012)

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Yes it seems you want to use regression. Clustering is a good algorithm for understanding your data, but if you want to predict a value like Purchase...

Carlos Bossy (3/19/2012)

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John, to answer one of your questions, yes, what you are doing is definitely data mining. With SQL Server you can do what you want with Analysis...