Deploying Tabular Models
Next up is deploying your model. There are a number of clickable methods to deploy your model.
Getting ready
Before you start deploying your model, it is important to set your deployment settings. This allows you to set the target server for deployment. You will find the deployment configuration in the project's properties. You can change the Deployment Server settings here. You are also able to set up multiple deployment configurations, such as test, development, and even production using the Configuration dropdown.
How to do it…
The following steps will describe how to deploy your model using SSDT, the deployment wizard, and the deployment utility:
You can deploy to a server using SSDT by right-clicking on the project and choosing Deploy. This will deploy the project to the targeted, actively configured deployment server.
As you can see from the dialog, metadata is deployed first, and then each table is loaded.
Open up Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to see the...
