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Tabular Modeling with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook

By : Derek Wilson
Book Image

Tabular Modeling with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook

By: Derek Wilson

Overview of this book

SQL Server Analysis Service (SSAS) has been widely used across multiple businesses to build smart online analytical reporting solutions. It includes two different types of modeling for analysis services: Tabular and Multi Dimensional. This book covers Tabular modeling, which uses tables and relationships with a fast in-memory engine to provide state of the art compression algorithms and query performance. The book begins by quickly taking you through the concepts required to model tabular data and set up the necessary tools and services. As you learn to create tabular models using tools such as Excel and Power View, you’ll be shown various strategies to deploy your model on the server and choose a query mode (In-memory or DirectQuery) that best suits your reporting needs. You’ll also learn how to implement key and newly introduced DAX functions to create calculated columns and measures for your model data. Last but not least, you’ll be shown techniques that will help you administer and secure your BI implementation along with some widely used tips and tricks to optimize your reporting solution. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained hands-on experience with the powerful new features that have been added to Tabular models in SSAS 2016 and you’ll be able to improve user satisfaction with faster reports and analytical queries.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Tabular Modeling with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Getting started with Power BI desktop


In this recipe you will download and install the Power BI desktop 64 bit edition. Once installed you will be ready to continue with the remaining recipes in the chapter to visualize the Iowa crash data.

How to do it...

  1. This software is available to download from https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/.

  2. Download the 32 or 64 bit version depending upon your environment.

  3. Double-click the downloaded PBIDesktop_x64.msi file and install the software.

  4. Launch the application from the desktop shortcut:

  5. A blank report will be shown as follows:

How it works...

In this recipe you downloaded Microsoft's Power BI desktop. You then installed and launched the application to ensure it is working.