With SQL Server Analysis Services 2016, Microsoft has dramatically upgraded its Tabular approach to business intelligence data modeling, making Tabular the easiest and best solution for most new projects. In this book, two world-renowned experts in Microsoft data modeling and analysis cover all you need to know to create complete BI solutions with these powerful new tools.

Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari walk you step-by-step through creating powerful data models, and then illuminate advanced features such as optimization, deployment, and scalability.

Tabular Modeling in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services will be indispensable for everyone moving to Analysis Services Tabular, regardless of their previous experience with tabular-style models or with Microsoft's older Analysis Services offerings. It will also be an essential follow-up for every reader of the authors' highly-praised Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introducing the tabular model

Chapter 2 Getting started with the tabular model

Chapter 3 Loading data inside Tabular

Chapter 4 Introducing calculations in DAX

Chapter 5 Building hierarchies

Chapter 6 Data modeling in Tabular

Chapter 7 Tabular Model Scripting Language (TMSL)

Chapter 8 The tabular presentation layer

Chapter 9 Using DirectQuery

Chapter 10 Security

Chapter 11 Processing and partitioning tabular models

Chapter 12 Inside VertiPaq

Chapter 13 Interfacing with Tabular

Chapter 14 Monitoring and tuning a Tabular service

Chapter 15 Optimizing tabular models

Chapter 16 Choosing hardware and virtualization

About the Authors

Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari are the founders of sqlbi.com, where they regularly publish articles about Microsoft Power Pivot, Power BI, DAX, and SQL Server Analysis Services. Russo and Ferrari have worked with Analysis Services since the first version in 1999. Both Russo and Ferrari provide consultancy and mentoring on business intelligence (BI). They are also frequent speakers at major international conferences, including Microsoft Ignite, PASS Summit, and SQLBits.