Power View and the Cube

Oslo, August 30th 2014

Rgis Baccaro
@regbac
Introduction
Rgis Baccaro
@regbac
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regis@baccaro.com
Founder and lead organizer of SQL Saturday Denmark
Works for IBM Rehfeld
Passionate about the community
.Net developer, BI guy, SharePoint fellow and accidental DBA
SQL Server MVP
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The Recipe The Cook
You should be :
Familiar with Analysis Services Multidimensional
Familiar with Power View
You will learn
How Cubes are exposed in Power View
MD Enhancements related to Power View
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Agenda
Architecture
Measure groups
Dimensions
Calculated Members
Default Member
Report filters
Images
Perspective & Translation
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The big picture - Architecture
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The Recipe - Architecture
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Third-party
applications
Reporting Services
(Power View)
Excel
PowerPivot
Databases LOB Applications Files OData Feeds Cloud Services
SharePoint
Insights
Reporting Services
(Power View)
The Recipe - ingredients
SharePoint 2010 or 2013 Enterprise edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1/SP2 or 2014
Analysis Services Multidimensional instance
Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft
SharePoint Technologies
PowerPivot for SharePoint
Tip : How to install SharePoint without a
domain account!
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The Recipe Preparation
Configuration of SharePoint
Make sure you do it in the right order !!
Generate a New Key in Secure Store Service
Application
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The Recipe Preparation
Configuration of PowerPivot
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The Recipe Preparation
Can be scripted
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The Recipe Preparation
Configuration of Reporting Services
Create a new RS application in SharePoint
central admin (2013)
Enable features on SharePoint
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The Recipe Preparation
Add the right content types to SharePoint
library
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Putting it all together Connecting to a cube
RSDS file
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Multidimensional Tabular mapping
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BISM MD Object Tabular Metadata
Cube Model
Cube Dimension Table
Attribute(Key(s),Name) Columns
Measure Group Table
Measure Measure
Measure without measure group Called Measures within tables
Measure group Dimension Relationship Relationship
Perspective Perspective
KPI KPI
User/Parent-Child Hierarchies Hierarchies
Measure and Measure groups
Measure and Measure Groups
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Measures as variants
Variants are not strongly typed
Can have different data types
Dimensions, attributes and hierarchies
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Dimensions tables
Attributes columns within display folder
Dimensions attribute types
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Dimension attribute geography types in
SSDT and Power View Field List
Parent-Child Hierarchy
Exposed as hierarchy
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Dimension Calculated members
2 common types :
Children of All with a single real member
Calculated members on user hierarchies
Constraints:
Must be a single real member when the
dimension has more than one attribute.
Cannot be the key attribute of the dimension
unless it is the only attribute.
cannot be a parent-child attribute.
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Non-Aggregatable Attributes
Dont aggregate across hierarchies
Demo
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Default Members
Exposed as default value or filter
Only applied when used on filters
Demo
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Images
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Not specific to MD models
Perspective and locale
Specified in the Cube connection string
Data Source=localost;Initial
Catalog=AdventureWorksDW-MD;Cube='Direct
Sales'
Added as Locale identifier
Data Source=localost;Initial
Catalog=AdventureWorksDW-
MD;Cube='Adventure Works'; Locale
Identifier=3084
Report pinned filters
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Tabular and MD models
Change one = change all
Added or modified via the filter pane
Added via rf URL parameter
EXAMPLE
http://...<reportUrl>...?rc:ViewMode=Presentation
&rf=[Date].[Calendar Year] eq 'CY 2005'
Unsupported features
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Power View in Excel 2013
Actions
Named sets
Cell level security
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Questions ?
Thank you!!
Contact me:
@regbac
regis@baccaro.com
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