1. SQL Saturday Cork 
Welcome to Cork
Data Storytelling for Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2017

2. Where is the data coming from?
Machine
Learning
Social
Messaging
Big Data
Enterprise Learning
Analytics
Mobile
Search
Travel

3. 2025 Opportunity Space $1.7T $3.7T $1.6T $0.9T $0.7T $0.2T $0.3T $1.2T
Microsoft Ignite 2016
12/31/2018 5:59 PM
2025 Opportunity Space
Cities
$1.7T
Factories
$3.7T
People
$1.6T
Vehicles
$0.7T
Worksite
$0.9T
Offices
$0.2T
Homes
$0.3T
Retail
$1.2T
Outdoor
$0.9T
Data: McKinsey
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4. BIModel BI
The practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of business intelligence and analytics delivery:
Stability
Agility
Bimodal BI helps mitigate the risk of having competing IT-owned and business owned models offering redundant solutions with conflicting definitions.
The challenge lies in how the two camps can work together in harmony. This is an organizational problem before a technology problem; however, an end-to-end, modern BI platform spanning both self-service and corporate BI can tremendously help organizations seeking to adopt a bimodal BI strategy.

5. Analysis Services Multidimensional and Tabular
New memory settings for Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services tabular models. These new settings are primarily for resource governance, and in some cases can speed up data refresh.
Multidimensional and Tabular

6. Analysis Services – in perspective
Tabular Model
xVelocity, In-Memory
2012
1998
2001
2005
1996
2000
2003
2008
2014
2011
PowerPivot for Excel 2010
“Vertipaq”

7. Power Pivot vs Tabular Scalability Manageability Security Development
Toolchain
More info
Credit, Microsoft Virtual Academy,

8. Multidimensional vs Tabular
Data Source
Model Size
Scripting / Language
Model Features
Programmability
Security
Credit, Microsoft Virtual Academy,

9. BISM Normalizer
Visual Studio Extension aimed at source control and model management workflows for Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services
Enabling the adoption of DevOps processes for tabular models, BISM Normalizer bridges the gap between self-service and IT-owned “corporate BI”.
This is made possible with BISM Normalizer, which we are pleased to announce now resides on the Analysis Services Git repo. BISM Normalizer is a popular open-source tool that works with Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services. All tabular model objects and compatibility levels, including the new 1400 compatibility level, are supported. As a Visual Studio extension, it is tightly integrated with source control systems, build and deployment processes, and model management workflows.

10. Github
Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services community repository on Github

11. BISM Normalizer

12. QueryMemoryLimit
The settable value of 1 to 100 is a percentage. Above that, it’s in bytes. The default value of 0 means not specified and no limit is applied.
Azure Analysis Services only
Latest Version of SSMS only
The Memory\QueryMemoryLimit property can be used to limit memory spools built by DAX queries submitted to the model. Currently, this property is only available in Azure Analysis Services.
Changing this property can be useful in controlling expensive queries that result in significant materialization. If the spooled memory for a query hits the limit, the query is cancelled and an error is returned, reducing the impact on other concurrent users of the system. Currently, MDX queries are not affected. It does not account for other general memory allocations used by the query.

13. Rowset SerializationLimit
This property limits the number of rows returned in a rowset to clients
Azure Analysis Services only
It applies to both DAX and MDX.
It can be used to protect server resources from extensive data export usage
Rowset SerializationLimit

14. Reporting Services
Report Creation, Connectivity, Design, Output

15. Data to Action Creating Actionable Learning

16. Calculus of Managing Knowledge
Learning = ∆Knowledge

17. “to fully understand the insights,
If it takes significant effort
then the honesty of
the visualization
- ShiSh Shridhar is
questionable.

18. Email alerts (SharePoint mode Pin to Power BI Pro only)
REPORT SERVER
REPORT VIEWING (PCs, mobile)
REPORT DELIVERY DESTINATIONS
Processing and
rendering
Scheduling and
delivery
Web browsers
Power BI Mobile
Custom apps/LOB
File share
SharePoint Power BI
Custom
SSRS -
Data Driven
Power BI –
Subscription
Embed R
data set
visualization
alerts (SharePoint mode
Mobile scenario
Pin to Power BI Pro
only)

19. What is SSRS? Server components that execute reports
Get data from data source
Render report to a certain target format (e.g. PDF, Excel, HTML, etc.)
Web portal for managing reports
Management tasks (upload report, schedule report execution, etc.)
Trigger report execution incl. interaction (drill down, links between reports, etc.)
SharePoint integration
API
Web services
URL-based API
.NET components for WinForms and ASP.NET

21. Techniques to beautiful and actionable data insights 5 •
Techniques to beautiful
and actionable data insights
Enrich your data - R and External script for R language
Understand Statistics - Sum, Avg, Min and Max are boring! Know graph tools - Leverage the best of SSRS (and Power BI) tools with R and learn R third party software for visualization
as powerful
(Shiny,
Plotly) •
Master story telling - Use visualizations to emphasize on your story
Enable users – Self-service, mobile BI and intelligent alerting

22. Reporting Services Data Alerts - http://bit.ly/1WNADR3
Adventure Works Sample File for SQL Server 2016 CTP3 -
5 Golden Rules of Data Visualization -
The Data Visualisation Catalogue -
What’s New in Reporting Services (SSRS) -
SQL Server R Services -
Creating Power BI Visuals using R -
Data Driven Subscriptions in SSRS -
Reporting Services Data Alerts -

23. SQL Server Reporting Services News
Report Creation
Report Connectivity
Report Design
Report Output

24. Report Creation
You can add comments to reports within the web portal of a report server
Annotate a snapshot of a tile, report, or visual from the Power BI mobile app for iOS and Android devices.

25. Report Connectivity
mobile reports can connect to on- premises SQL Server Analysis Services multidimensional data
mobile reports can connect to on- premises SQL Server Analysis Services tabular data

26. Report Output
Charts, gauges, maps and images can be pinned to a Power BI dashboard
When you have pinned your SSRS report item to a Power BI dashboard, Reporting Services manages the subscription

27. Report Output
SSRS can produce PowerPoint output in the Report Builder, Report Designer (SSDT) and the SSRS web portal
Send the SSRS output to the PowerPoint rendering extension
selecting the PPTX format for subscription output
Use the SSRS URL access to render and export

28. Reporting Services Futures
Reporting Services integration with SharePoint is no longer available after SQL Server 2016
Only Native mode from now on
Integrate Native mode in SharePoint

29. As we continue our march towards General Availability (GA) of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in Azure Data Factory (ADF), we are excited to announce the release of Execute SSIS Package activity as the most direct and code-free method to invoke SSIS package executions within ADF pipelines.

30. Invoke SSIS package executions within ADF pipelines
Stored Procedure activity used in ADF invoke SSIS packages in ADF.
Create a linked service to connect to Azure SQL Database (DB) server hosting their catalog of SSIS projects (SSISDB) and T-SQL script to invoke stored procedures in SSISDB that create, configure, and start SSIS package executions 
First class Execute SSIS Package into the ADF pipeline
Select Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime (IR) to execute package
Specify path to deployed package in SSIDB
Now they can simply drag-n-drop the first-class Execute SSIS Package activity into their ADF pipeline, select Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime (IR) to run their package, and specify the path to their deployed package in SSIDB:
Reference:

31. Monitor Pipelines in SSMS
Schedule SSIS package executions on Azure-SSIS IR
Triggering runs of ADF pipelines that contain Execute SSIS Package activities. 
Modernize your ETL (Extract – Transform – Load) workflows
Group SSIS activities with other activities such as Web activities with webhooks
splicing/injecting built-in SSIS connectors, tasks, and data transformations within ADF pipelines
custom/Open Source/3rd party components
Schedule SSIS package executions on Azure-SSIS IR by triggering runs of ADF pipelines that contain Execute SSIS Package activities. 

32. Power BI News
June 2018 News

33. Dashboard Themes
Theming is an extension to the existing report theming feature on Desktop
A theme file is a JSON file that includes all the colours you want use for your dashboard.
You can upload a theme file using the Upload JSON theme button on top of the pane.

34. Questions?

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