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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Tabular models are the not-so-new version of analytic models in SSAS. They have been around for nearly 10 years now and are a key product in Microsoft's future of business intelligence tools. As discussed in Chapter 1, Analysis Services in SQL Server 2019, they are built on VertiPaq technology, which leverages memory and column compression to create a great analytics platform. Like multidimensional modes, tabular models have strengths and challenges that we want you to know about.

One key consideration of our list here is that we only cover compatibility level 1500. Tabular models have been through a lot of change since 2012, including with this release (see the new features in Chapter 1, Analysis Services in SQL Server 2019). Some of the features in the current release eliminate some key challenges that have existed in tabular models since they were released. One such weakness is no support for many-to-many relationships...