Be Careful Partitioning Analysis Services (Tabular)

There are generally three reasons for partitioning an Analysis Services model: To improve processing time by running partitioning in parallelTo improve processing time by allowing for incremental processing of some sortTo improve query time where most queries only need a smaller slice of data – say a week or month.  To help test this I … Continue reading Be Careful Partitioning Analysis Services (Tabular)

Tabular Model Partitioning to help Developers

Developing Tabular models in Visual studio can be super painful as the interface gets very “sluggish” as tables get larger. in some cases customers have told me they wait 5-10 minutes a go to say change the name of a column or add a calculation Another of the annoying things about tabular models is that … Continue reading Tabular Model Partitioning to help Developers