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June 12, 2018
by George SQUILLACE
“SQL” is in the name!
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George SQUILLACE
“SQL” is in the name!
Husband & Dad
Twenty Five Years of New Horizons service
(June 2016) For fun: (no particular order)
Movies
~30 years in Information Technology
Reading
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 1997 Bicycling (road / city / trail)
99 times in the exam booth! Travel
Music / Acoustic Guitar
Microsoft SQL Server certifications Computers
MCSE: Business Intelligence Aircraft
MCSE: Data Platform
MCSA
Microsoft Virtual Academy presenter
SQLSaturday presenter
Certified in every version of SQL Server since SQL 2000
Certified in every version of Windows Server from
NT 4.0 – Windows Server 2008
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Agenda Highlights
What’s it all about?
Demo: Interactive Analysis
SSAS Installation
Multidimensional Models
The B.I. Semantic Model BISM
Tabular Models
Resources
A little bit on B.I.
It’s tough running an organization.
To run an organization I have to make
decisions.
To make good decisions I need good
information.
Remember, just because I have good
information doesn’t mean I will make a good
decision.
B.I. Landscape
Data model – the “magic” of
Data sources are the data models comes from
optimized for small, a copy of the source data also
random, reads & stored in the model, but in a
writes, which is why proprietary, efficient way, and
those databases are from the aggregations already
normalized and why calculated and stored in the
queries contain model
many joins.
Data warehouse
- Combined,
cleansed,
standardized data
along with
historical data.
Optimized for
large, sequential
reads.
What is SSAS and Why Do I Care?
Measures
Dimensions
Development Tool – Visual Studio
General approach
Bottom Up
Top Down
Measure Group table selection
Measure selection
Dimension selection
Cube Wizard
Demonstration
Subsequent Multidimensional Model
Development Tasks
Refine Dimensions
Assign Time intelligence to the date dimension
Add Attributes to Dimensions
Create Hierarchies and Levels and Attribute Relationships
Define Measure Group and Measure Properties
Partitions
Aggregations
Define Other Cube Properties
Calculations tab
Named Sets
Calculated Members
KPIs
Actions
Perspectives
Translations
Deployment
Deployment =
XML file validation
File copy to an existing SSAS server installed in
Multidimensional and Data Mining mode
Create and store “Aggregations”
BI Semantic
Model - BISM
What is BISM?
Tabular Models
What is a Tabular Model?