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

In Chapter 9, Exploring and Visualizing Your Data with Excel, we connected our models to Microsoft Excel. In this chapter, we will connect our models to Power BI, build out some reports and dashboards, and enhance the models in Power BI. You will be able to use these techniques to create compelling visualizations for your users. The goal with Power BI is to clearly visualize data to help users make informed decisions quickly while at the same time interact with the data to dive into the details.

We will wrap up the chapter by demonstrating how to add measures to the live connection Power BI dashboard and how to deploy your desktop files to share in the Power BI service online. We will be creating two Power BI Desktop files, one for each model. This will allow us to compare how the models interact with Power BI.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics: