You're reading from Hands-On SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services Design and query tabular and multi-dimensional models using Microsoft's SQL Server Analysis Services

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800204768

Length 474 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

SQL Server

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Steven Hughes

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Choosing Your Model

2. Chapter 1: Analysis Services in SQL Server 2019 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Choosing the SQL Server 2019 Analytic Model for Your BI Needs

4. Section 2: Building and Deploying a Multidimensional Model

5. Chapter 3: Preparing Your Data for Multidimensional Models

6. Chapter 4: Building a Multidimensional Cube in SSAS 2019

7. Chapter 5: Adding Measures and Calculations with MDX

8. Section 3: Building and Deploying Tabular Models

9. Chapter 6: Preparing Your Data for Tabular Models

10. Chapter 7: Building a Tabular Model in SSAS 2019

11. Chapter 8: Adding Measures and Calculations with DAX

12. Section 4: Exposing Insights while Visualizing Data from Your Models

13. Chapter 9: Exploring and Visualizing Your Data with Excel

14. Chapter 10: Creating Interactive Reports and Enhancing Your Models in Power BI

15. Section 5: Security, Administration, and Managing Your Models

16. Chapter 11: Securing Your SSAS Models

17. Chapter 12: Common Administration and Maintenance Tasks

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Processing or refreshing the data in your models

In both models, you reload or refresh the data in your models using processing. Processing your cube, dimension, table, or database will refresh the data in the defined object. In this section, we will be separating the processing options for multidimensional and tabular models. Remember that multidimensional models focus on reloading data to disk, whereas tabular models focus on loading data to memory.

Processing multidimensional models and their components

Most storage objects in a multidimensional database can be processed from the top-level object or database to aggregations within a measure group. Up to this point, we have been processing the database by right-clicking the database and choosing Process. Now we will look at other options for processing data and why you may choose certain options.

Let's review the processing options available to us. The following chart shows which objects can be processed with the type...