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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide Get to grips with Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing technologies using this practical guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849688888
Length 350 pages
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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide
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Preface
1. Data Warehouse Design 2. SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional Cube Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Tabular Model Development of SQL Server Analysis Services 4. ETL with Integration Services 5. Master Data Management 6. Data Quality and Data Cleansing 7. Data Mining – Descriptive Models in SSAS 8. Identifying Data Patterns – Predictive Models in SSAS 9. Reporting Services 10. Dashboard Design 11. Power BI 12. Integrating Reports in Applications Index

Summary


Power BI is a self-service BI tool of Microsoft, mainly based on Excel services. Power BI uses four main components, namely Power Query, PowerPivot, Power Map, and Power View (there is also a Q and A feature recently announced by Microsoft; at the time of writing this book, there is no preview version of that feature to discuss here).

Power Query is a self-service ETL tool that works with lots of data sources, even online search and Big Data; it supports a bunch of transformations. In the first section of this chapter, you learned how to work with Power Query and then with the M language, which is a Power Query formula language.

PowerPivot is a data modeling tool. In Chapter 4, ETL with Integration Services, you learned how to perform tabular modeling. PowerPivot uses the same data modeling engine with a very similar interface. So, if you want to work with PowerPivot or the DAX language, refer to Chapter 4, ETL with Integration Services. PowerPivot is embedded in Excel 2013, so you...

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