SQL Server Tutorials for beginners: OLAP / Data Mining

I teach a DBMS + BI course to non-CS (business) students, using SQL Server. To illustrate OLAP I use the nice interactive online demo at "olaponline.radar-soft.com".
Is there a simple tutorial for SQL Server that is similar? Prepackaged, Illustrating OLAP, BI, or Data Mining algorithms? Everything I've seen so far is too complicated and requires many preparation steps before interacting with the model/cube.
Alternatively can you recommend other online tools / demos? Thanks,
-- Shaul

Hello,
The best way to learn about data mining is the list of 22 lessons created y Daniel Calbimonte:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Authors/Articles/Daniel_Calbimonte/1486684/
About Business Intelligence, please take the following free training:
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-topics/business_intelligence_topic_page_en
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Alberto Morillo
SQLCoffee.com

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