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Webinar Materials: Power BI Under the Hood

Pass DW BI VC Power BI Under the Hood with Soheil BakhshiI’d like to thank you all for attending the webinar held on 30th September 2016. I talked about some amazing under cover aspects of Power BI Desktop model. In this session you learnt:

If you’ve missed the webinar you can watch it online here:

Download the Power Point presentation file here.:

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Here is the PDF version of presentation:

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BISM Tabular, Business Intelligence - BI, SQL Server Analysis Services - SSAS

Resolving “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” Error When Deploying your Tabular Model

You’ve changed something in your Tabular model and you’re facing an ugly “Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” message, don’t rush. Just go to the table you’ve made some changes and click on “Partitions” button.

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Then click “Refresh Preview” button and click OK.

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All done!

Business Intelligence - BI, SQL Server Analysis Services - SSAS

Three different approaches for creating a BISM in SSAS 2012, Tabular vs. Multidimensional vs. PowerPivot

SSAS 2012 supports three different approaches for creating a BISM (Business Intelligence Semantic Model):

1. Tabular

a. Uses relational modelling constructs like such as tables and relationships

b. Uses xVelocity in-memory analytics engine for sorting and data calculations

c. Needs to use SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) to implement

d. Can import data from relational data sources using OLE DB native and managed providers

e. Tabular solutions only support one model.bim file per solution, which means that all work must be done in a single file. Development teams that are accustomed to working with multiple projects in a single solution might need to revise how they work when building a shared tabular solution.

f. support DAX calculations, DAX queries, and MDX queries

g. Tabular model databases can use row-level security, using role-based permissions in Analysis Services (DAX implementation required)

h. It might be not a good choice for the systems that are going to load terabytes of data

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