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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Creating Power BI visualizations using live connections

Let's start creating our Power BI visualizations using the recommended connection method – live connections. We will review more details about this connection type versus the import method in the next section.

To get started, we will need to create Power BI Desktop files to support each model type:

Open and save two Power BI Desktop files – WideWorldImporters-MD.pbix and WideWorldImporters-TAB.pbix.
When you open a new Power BI Desktop file, you will see a splash screen with some information on it. Go ahead and close that window. Both desktops should look similar to the following screenshot when you are ready:

Figure 10.1 – New Power BI Desktop Window

Remember, your Power BI Desktop surface may be different than the one we have shown in the preceding screenshot. In most cases, the core functionality we will be exploring in this chapter should be possible in...