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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Building visualizations with your models

For the remainder of this chapter, we will be creating the visualizations and queries primarily using our multidimensional model. We can do this because Excel interacts with both models in a similar way. Where differences appear, they will be called out to make you aware. Let's get started.

Understanding the PivotTable Fields panel

Before we get into the details of designing visualizations in Excel, let's break down the PivotTable Fields panel in Excel. How data is presented from each model type does vary here and we will look at those differences.

The PivotTable Fields panel in Excel is made up of two main sections, first, the Fields section, and second, the areas they are put into in the PivotTable, called Areas to Place Fields, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 9.6 – PivotTable Fields panel

Let's understand the features of the PivotTable Fields panel: