Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1 Introducing the tabular model
• CHAPTER 2 Getting started with the tabular model
• CHAPTER 3 Loading data inside Tabular
• CHAPTER 4 Introducing calculations in DAX
• CHAPTER 5 Building hierarchies
• CHAPTER 6 Data modeling in Tabular
• CHAPTER 7 Tabular Model Scripting Language (TMSL)
• CHAPTER 8 The tabular presentation layer
• CHAPTER 9 Using DirectQuery
• CHAPTER 10 Security
• CHAPTER 11 Processing and partitioning tabular models
• CHAPTER 12 Inside VertiPaq
• CHAPTER 13 Interfacing with Tabular
• CHAPTER 14 Monitoring and tuning a Tabular service
• CHAPTER 15 Optimizing tabular models
• CHAPTER 16 Choosing hardware and virtualization 

About the Author

Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari are the founders of sqlbi.com, where they regularly publish articles about Microsoft Power Pivot, Power BI, DAX, and SQL Server Analysis Services. Russo and Ferrari have worked with Analysis Services since the first version in 1999. Both Russo and Ferrari provide consultancy and mentoring on business intelligence (BI). They are also frequent speakers at major international conferences, including Microsoft Ignite, PASS Summit, and SQLBits.