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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