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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

Analyzing data with Power View


Power View enables highly flexible analytical views view from within Excel. Users can leverage Power View to create interactive data exploration, visualizations, and presentations. Users who are familiar with pivot tables will quickly be able to leverage Power View. The Power View interface enables faster exploration of data over traditional pivot tables. This recipe will show you how to connect to your model from Excel. You will then see how to build and interact with Power View against the data.

How to do it...

  1. Open a new worksheet in Excel and select the Data menu. Then Get External Data, From Other Sources, and select From Analysis Services.

  2. On the Data Connection Wizard, enter your server name (this example uses WIN-6D5CGQH9KL9) and your Log on Credentials, then click Next.

  3. Select the Crash_Data_SSASTM database, then the Crash_Data_Model, and then click Next.

  4. Review your connection information and then click Finish.

  5. On the Import Data window, choose...