How to Automate SSAS Tabular Model Processing

You are working on a BI project that involves SSAS Tabular model. As you cannot process the model manually you need to develop a solution to process the model automatically. There are two scenarios here:

  1. You have an up and running SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) instance: In this case you can build a SSIS package to process the Tabular Model.
  2. You do not have an SSIS instance ready on the server: So you need to create a SQL Server Agent Job.

In this post I’m expressing easy ways to solve the problem based on the above scenarios.

Using SQL Server Integration Services to Process SSAS Tabular Model

Follow the steps below:

  1. Create a new SSIS project using (SQL Server Data Tools) SSDT
  2. Right click on the “Connection Managers” area and select “New Analysis Services Connection”image

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