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Hands-On SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204768
Length 474 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steven Hughes Steven Hughes
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding calculations and measures to your cube

We created some calculations while querying the cube. Now, let's make those a permanent part of the cube. In this section, we will switch from SSMS as our primary tool to Visual Studio and the SSAS project. We will continue to use SSMS for testing and experimentation, so you will need to have both tools open. One other thing, we have been using Red for a lot of our analysis. We will expand on that for our examples. In our use case here, we will assume that our business users are trying to determine what colors have the most impact on their business. Let's expand the color analysis for our cube.

Using the calculations section

Reopen your Visual Studio project if it is not open already. Once you have the project loaded, open the Wide World Importers cube design window. In the design window, select the Calculations tab. This will be our starting point for adding calculated measures and named sets built with MDX. Let&apos...

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