Steven Hughes - Hands-On SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services: Design and query tabular and multi-dimensional models using Microsofts SQL Server Analysis Services

Design and query tabular and multi-dimensional models using Microsoft's SQL Server Analysis Services

Steven Hughes

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To my wonderful wife, Sheila. Your patience and support during the writing process has been phenomenal. Sometimes the work is long and keeps me away from you, even when I am in the same house. Thanks for everything. Love always.

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I respected Steves knowledge and technical depth long before I met him and as we have worked together, the root of his success is evident. Steve is a person worth listening to and learning from. He helps with a giving heart to truly enable others. His passion for lifting others up is evident in the labor of love that is this book.

Much learning is now done in smaller chunks or digital bites that allow us to solve problems quickly and move on. This is a great enabler and accelerator for our journeys. There are subjects, however, that can get deep quickly and require a more comprehensive approach to truly master them.

We need people and resources committed to combining industry-leading experience with theory, practicality, and hands-on approaches that explain, enable, and enlighten us to a new set of solutions and possibilities.

Analysis Services is close to my heart because, like many of you, I have banged my head on the keyboard because a query would not perform, or a hierarchy would not work properly or worse yet my model just would not support where I needed to take the solution. I have been blessed to work alongside some of the most brilliant minds in our field. Im honored to learn from them at every step and you have an incredible opportunity with this book to learn from one of the best.

Enjoy this book. Take notes in the margins, dog-ear the pages, or highlight in your e-reader. There will be plenty you will want to revisit.

My best wishes for your success.

Adam Jorgensen

Vice President, Professional Services - Data & Analytics

3Cloud

Steve Hughes is the director of consulting and an enterprise architect at 3Cloud. He has worked extensively on Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services multidimensional models throughout the years, followed by working with tabular models including Power BI and Power Pivot implementations. He is passionate about using data effectively and helping customers understand that data is valuable and profitable. He has worked in many industries, including healthcare, finance, manufacturing, transportation, and utilities. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional with multiple Microsoft Azure and Data Platform certifications.

I want to thank Edward Jankowski (my father-in-law), Adam Jorgenson (friend and boss), and Terry Hughes (my father) for their examples of excellence in technology and work.

Dan English is a data and AI cloud solution architect at Microsoft in Minneapolis, MN. He has been developing with Microsoft technologies since 1996 and has focused on data warehousing and business intelligence since 2004. He has helped run and present at user group events such as the Minnesota SQL Server user group and the Microsoft Minnesota BI user group, along with SQLSaturday events. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Minnesota State University, Mankato. He and his wife, Molly, live in Minnesota and have two children, Lily and Wyatt.

Alan Faulkner is an IT professional with more than 20 years of progressive technical experience. He specializes in business intelligence, data warehousing, and database architecture. With the advent of the cloud, Alan architects data solutions based on Azure technologies as well. His experience across disparate industries, applications, and tools provides efficient delivery of flexible and scalable data architectures. Alan holds a B.S. degree in Computer Information Systems (CIS) from DeVry University. He participated in the Microsoft SSAS Maestro program during its short-lived tenure and has written about Analysis Services on his blog, FalconTek Solutions Central.

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