Future Analysis Services posts on Power BI blog
The Analysis Services Team Blog has served as the medium for many historic announcements and updates in Microsoft BI over the past 10 years. Well, Microsoft is moving off MSDN and TechNet blogs, so...
View ArticleWhat’s new for SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services CTP 2.4
We are excited to announce the public CTP 2.4 of SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services. This public preview includes the following enhancements for Analysis Services tabular models. Many-to-many...
View ArticleWhat’s new for SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services CTP 2.3
We find great pleasure in announcing the public CTP 2.3 of SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services. New features detailed here are planned to ship later in Power BI Premium and Azure Analysis Services....
View ArticleWhitepaper on modeling for AS tabular scalability
This is a guest post from Daniel Rubiolo of the Power BI Customer Advisory Team (PBI CAT). To scale Tabular models to very big volumes of data, and with the objective of getting as much of the data as...
View ArticleNew memory options for Analysis Services
We’re happy to introduce some new memory settings for Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services tabular models. These new settings are primarily for resource governance, and in some...
View ArticleAutomation of Analysis Services with NuGet packages
We are pleased to announce that the Analysis Services Management Objects (AMO) and ADOMD client libraries are now available from NuGet.org! This simplifies the development and management of automation...
View ArticleAsynchronous Refresh with the REST API for Azure Analysis Services
We are pleased to introduce the REST API for Azure Analysis Services. Using any programming language that supports REST calls, you can now perform asynchronous data-refresh operations. This includes...
View ArticleUsing Legacy Data Sources in Tabular 1400
The modern Get Data experience in Tabular 1400 brings interesting new data discovery and transformation capabilities to Analysis Services. However, not every BI professional is equally excited....
View ArticleUsing Azure Analysis Services on Top of Azure Data Lake Store
The latest release of SSDT Tabular adds support for Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) to the modern Get Data experience (see the following screenshot). Now you can augment your big data analytics workloads...
View ArticleSupporting Advanced Data Access Scenarios in Tabular 1400 Models
In the context of this blog article, advanced data access scenarios refers to situations where data access functions inside M expressions cannot easily be represented through data source definitions in...
View ArticleDeploying Analysis Services and Reporting Services Project Types in Visual...
(Co-authored by Mike Mallit) SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) adds four different project types to Visual Studio 2017 to create SQL Server Database, Analysis Services, Reporting Service, and Integration...
View ArticleOnline Analysis Services Course: Developing a Multidimensional Model
Check out the excellent, new online course by Peter Myers and Chris Randall for Microsoft Learning Experiences (LeX). Lean how to develop multidimensional data models with SQL Server 2016 Analysis...
View ArticleModel Comparison and Merging for Analysis Services
Relational-database schema comparison and merging is a well-established market. Leading products include SSDT Schema Compare and Redgate SQL Compare, which is partially integrated into Visual Studio....
View ArticleWhat’s new in SQL Server 2017 RC1 for Analysis Services
The RC1 public preview of SQL Server 2017 is available here! It includes Dynamic Management View improvements for tabular models with compatibility level 1200 and 1400. DMVs are useful in numerous...
View ArticleBuilding an Azure Analysis Services Model on Top of Azure Blob Storage—Part 3
Part 2 finished with the deployment of a scalable Tabular 1400 model in Azure Analysis Services on top of Azure Blob storage. Part 3 continues the story by attempting to load up to 1 TB of TPC-DS...
View ArticleUpdate to Auto-Partitioning Code Sample & Whitepaper
A new version of the whitepaper and code sample of automated partition management (see here for more info) is released! Enhancements include the following. Support for 1400 models with M partitions and...
View ArticleBuilding an Azure Analysis Services Model on Top of Azure Blob Storage—Part 2
The first part in this series covering Azure Analysis Services models on top of Azure Blob Storage discussed techniques to implement a small Tabular 1400 model based on synthetic TPC-DS source data....
View ArticleWhat’s new in SQL Server 2017 CTP 2.1 for Analysis Services
The public CTP 2.1 of SQL Server 2017 is available here! This public preview includes the following enhancements for Analysis Services tabular models. Shared M expressions are shown in the SSDT Tabular...
View ArticleBuilding an Azure Analysis Services Model on Top of Azure Blob Storage—Part 1
In a comment to a recent blog article, Bill Anton raised a question about the target scenarios for the modern Get Data experience in Tabular 1400 models, especially concerning file-based data sources....
View Article1400 Compatibility Level in Azure Analysis Services
We are excited to announce the public preview of the 1400 compatibility level for tabular models in Azure Analysis Services! This brings a host of new connectivity and modeling features for...
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