Chapter 18. Optimizations and Monitoring

Now that you have seen how to build a complete Tabular solution, this final chapter provides information about how to monitor its behavior and how to guarantee that your solution is running at its best.

In Chapter 9, you saw how the Tabular engine uses memory to process and query databases. This chapter shows how you can monitor the resources used by the system and how to change some parameters to optimize SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and memory usage. It also provides some hints on how to write efficient DAX queries.

Finding the Analysis Services Process

Analysis Services is a process running as a service under the Microsoft Windows operating system. It starts as soon as the operating system starts, ...

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