Chapter 2. Design a tabular BI semantic model

The skills necessary to develop a tabular model for SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) are much different than the skills required to develop a multidimensional model. In some ways, the tabular modeling process is much simpler and more flexible than the multidimensional modeling process. Although it is not required to transform the source data for a tabular model into a star schema, the development steps are in general easier if you work from a star schema and the processing necessary to load a tabular model with data can often run faster. For this reason, in this chapter we use the same data source introduced in the previous chapter to walk through key development and administrative tasks for a ...

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