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Hands-On SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services

By : Steve Hughes
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Hands-On SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services

By: Steve Hughes

Overview of this book

SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) continues to be a leading enterprise-scale toolset, enabling customers to deliver data and analytics across large datasets with great performance. This book will help you understand MS SQL Server 2019’s new features and improvements, especially when it comes to SSAS. First, you’ll cover a quick overview of SQL Server 2019, learn how to choose the right analytical model to use, and understand their key differences. You’ll then explore how to create a multi-dimensional model with SSAS and expand on that model with MDX. Next, you’ll create and deploy a tabular model using Microsoft Visual Studio and Management Studio. You'll learn when and how to use both tabular and multi-dimensional model types, how to deploy and configure your servers to support them, and design principles that are relevant to each model. The book comes packed with tips and tricks to build measures, optimize your design, and interact with models using Excel and Power BI. All this will help you visualize data to gain useful insights and make better decisions. Finally, you’ll discover practices and tools for securing and maintaining your models once they are deployed. By the end of this MS SQL Server book, you’ll be able to choose the right model and build and deploy it to support the analytical needs of your business.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Choosing Your Model
4
Section 2: Building and Deploying a Multidimensional Model
8
Section 3: Building and Deploying Tabular Models
12
Section 4: Exposing Insights while Visualizing Data from Your Models
15
Section 5: Security, Administration, and Managing Your Models

Chapter 11: Securing Your SSAS Models

Now that we have created our models and built reports and dashboards, we will wrap up the book with chapters on security and maintenance. This chapter focuses on securing the server and the data in your models. We will review the capabilities that SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) brings and the unique features available to each type of model. A significant part of this chapter will describe what you can do to implement different or enhanced security. Some of the topics in this chapter will not have hands-on exercises because of the complexity or enterprise nature of security implementations.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Reviewing security settings for SSAS
  • Setting up user roles in servers and databases
  • Implementing data security in multidimensional models
  • Implementing data security in tabular models