Summary
Since the first edition of this book, we have argued that BI should not be considered a niche area, separate from relational database work. We believed then, as now, that relational technology and BI existed along a continuum, and that it is important to know both. We’ve proven that point in this chapter by starting with the relational capability of columnstore indexes then moving to PowerPivot and the Tabular mode of Analysis Services, which then gave us the capability to make the round-trip back to a relational database using DirectQuery. We then went to Power View, a BI tool if ever there was one, and used it to report from a BI Semantic Model acting as a thin layer around our relational data. The pièce de rèsistance was adding a columnstore ...
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