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Tabular Modeling with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook

You're reading from   Tabular Modeling with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook Create better operational analytics for your users with these business solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468611
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Microsoft Analysis Services Tabular Mode FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up a Tabular Mode Environment 3. Tabular Model Building 4. Working in Tabular Models 5. Administration of Tabular Models 6. In-Memory Versus DirectQuery Mode 7. Securing Tabular Models 8. Combining Tabular Models with Excel 9. DAX Syntax and Calculations 10. Working with Dates and Time Intelligence 11. Using Power BI for Analysis

Understanding and building relationships


As you add tables to your model, you will need to build the relationships that tell the tabular model which tables and fields are related to each other. These relationships enable the calculations that you create to perform correctly. In this recipe, you will create a relationship between the MasterCalendar_T table and the Crash_Data table.

Getting ready

Before starting this recipe make sure you have loaded the Iowa crash data and the MasterCalendar_T table into you model. This recipe shows you how to create a relationship between the two tables.

How to do it...

  1. Left-click the Crash_Date_fx column from the CRASH_DATE table and then drag it to the Date column in the MasterCalendar_T table.

  2. Since MasterCalendar_T is designated as a Date table, the model made the relationship be one-to-many from the MasterCalendar_T to the Crash_Data table.

  3. Double-click on the relationship arrow that was added to bring up the Edit Relationship window. This window allows...

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