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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.

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This Microsoft SQL Server book is for BI professionals and data analysts who are looking for a practical guide to creating and maintaining tabular and multi-dimensional models using SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services. A basic working knowledge of BI solutions such as Power BI and database querying is required.

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Determine the best analytical model using SSAS

Cover the core aspects involved in MDX, including writing your first query

Implement calculated tables and calculation groups (new in version 2019) in DAX

Create and deploy tabular and multi-dimensional models on SQL 2019

Connect and create data visualizations using Excel and Power BI

Implement row-level and other data security methods with tabular and multi-dimensional models

Explore essential concepts and techniques to scale, manage, and optimize your SSAS solutions

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Ravikumar Venkatesan Feb 16, 2021

The book is very well written with lot of examples and samples. The book provides very detailed steps starting from installation and using Microsoft tool to build analytical models. It explained very well difference between analytical processing and transaction processing. The book is user friendly and can help beginner to understand and learn starting from concept Dimension, facts, measure etc. It could have touched topics on integrating with third party tools like Tableau and also could have included topic on using Analytical services over cloud with Azure.

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Naga Pakalapati Feb 08, 2021

Highly recommended if you work on Analysis services and need expert views on various aspects if it.Author brings a depth of knowledge to talk about important features in great detail from choosing the right model for your requirement, pros and cons, differences between various versions and compatibility, preparing data for dimensional modeling, using DB views to create models, loading, processing, security, creating measure/kpi, connecting to front end tools and what not.What you don’t find in the book: In depth details of each and every property of AS or using DAX. This book is not meant or written for this purpose.Disclaimer: Received a review copy. My views are solely in the content of the book and is unbiased in any way.

Andres Williams Herrera Jun 25, 2023

Muy actualizado, didáctico , cubre todo el contenido relacionado con las nuevas características de la implementación de modelos tabulares en SSAS y además trae muy buenos ejemplos

LadyRuna Apr 21, 2021

You'll feel almost as if Steve is sitting next to you guiding you every step of the way on your journey learning SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services - and the best part is you won't have to share your snacks with him. The book is fully illustrated with screen shots showing settings for interactive dialog boxes, database diagrams, and Visual Studio windows, allowing readers to easily confirm that they have completed each task as designed.The book starts off with some background about the history of Analysis Services then dives right into selecting the correct analysis services model (Tabular or Multi-dimensional). The second section takes readers by the hand and leads them through installation, configuration, and development of a Multi-dimensional model, and creating measures and KPIs using MDX. The third section repeats the process for installing, configuring and developing with the tabular model, and creating measures and KPIs using DAX. The last two sections cover reporting and visualizations for the Analysis Services databases as well as administration and security tasks to ensure that the newly constructed Analysis Services databases are properly maintained and protected.Finally, the book provides links to the online repository of example code files and a PDF file with color versions of every image included in the book. This additional online content is fantastic for anyone who has the hard copy of the book because readers can copy and paste the lines of code directly into their own working database rather than have to risk making typing errors when attempting to type the code blocks on their own. The color image PDF was especially helpful because the images were much clearer in that document than they were in the printed book.If you're interested in ramping up from novice to expert in SQL Server Analysis Services, I recommend you try this book - you won't be disappointed.

David Greenberg Dec 16, 2020

I really like this book. It is very informative and covers the topics in great detail. As a professional working with Analysis Services since 2005, I like the authors' discussion of how the product has changed over time and the strengths and weaknesses of each version (tabular vs multidimensional). They also discuss the changes for the 2019 edition of SSAS and the change over from SQL Server Data Tools to Visual Studio 2019 with Extensions for BI development. Highly recommended!

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