Tabular Editor
Tabular Editor is an editor alternative to SSDT for authoring Tabular models for Analysis Services even without a workspace server.
Tabular Editor is an editor alternative to SSDT for authoring Tabular models for Analysis Services even without a workspace server.
SQLBI offers a new introductory DAX video course called Introducing DAX. This article describes which users will benefit more from this learning experience, and how to enroll in the course.
This article describes the differences in the levels available in Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS), comparing them with the features in SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) on-premises.
Summary: DirectQuery transforms the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular model into a metadata layer on top of an external database. For SQL Server 2016, DirectQuery was redesigned for dramatically improved speed and performance, however, it is also now more complex to understand and implement. There are many tradeoffs to
This article describes different techniques to retrieve multiple values from a lookup table in DAX, improving code readability and performance.
This article describes how table expansion and filter context propagation are important DAX concepts to understand and fix small glitches in DAX expressions.
This article explains how to use SUMMARIZECOLUMNS, which is a replacement of SUMMARIZE and does not require the use of ADDCOLUMNS to obtain good performance.
SSAS Events Analyzer is a simple monitoring system that can be easily applied to any SSAS server with a minimal effort.
SSAS Activity Monitor is an open source tool to monitor the current activity (sessions, transactions, connections, and locks) on an Analysis Services instance. It works for both Tabular and Multidimensional mode.
If you do not have a full month with data, comparisons such as year-over-year (YOY) might require particular filters in order to do a like for like comparison in DAX. This article describes how to write DAX expressions comparing equivalent periods, keeping corresponding number of days in the comparison.