Tabular Modeling in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, 2nd edition
Published by Microsoft Press (April 12, 2017) © 2017
- Marco Russo
- Alberto Ferrari
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Create corporate-level business intelligence (BI) solutions
Create a semantic model and analyse data using the tabular model in SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services. Led by two BI experts, you will learn how to build, deploy, and query a tabular model by following detailed examples and best practices. This hands-on book shows you how to use the tabular model's in-memory database to perform rapid analytics - whether you are new to Analysis Services or already familiar with its multidimensional model.
Discover how to:
- Determine when a tabular or multidimensional model is right for your project
- Build a tabular model using SQL Server Data Tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
- Integrate data from multiple sources into a single, coherent view of company information
- Choose a data-modeling technique that meets your organisation's performance and usability requirements
- Implement security by establishing administrative and data user roles
- Define and implement partitioning strategies to reduce processing time
- Use Tabular Model Scripting Language (TMSL) to execute and automate administrative tasks
- Optimise your data model to reduce the memory footprint for VertiPaq
- Choose between in-memory (VertiPaq) and pass-through (DirectQuery) engines for tabular models
- Select the proper hardware and virtualisation configurations
- Deploy and manipulate tabular models from C# and PowerShell using AMO and TOM libraries
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