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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Understanding how we got here – two modes

In Chapter 1, Analysis Services in SQL Server 2019, we delved into the history of Analysis Services in SQL Server. As you can see, multidimensional mode has been around for over 20 years now. Tabular mode was introduced to SQL Server in 2012. But why bring in tabular? As the analytics industry has continued to grow, the technology has also improved. In particular, column-oriented database technology, which optimized memory consumption, was one of the biggest industry changes. It introduced technology in the Microsoft database space called VertiPaq. This column-based storage technology changed how we think about analytics and introduced Power Pivot in Excel and tabular mode in SQL Server.

When Microsoft introduced tabular mode, Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) architects in the industry had mixed feelings. At that point, we had built complex business solutions on multidimensional models and were very skilled at managing and improving...