Free SSAS - tabular exercises
You are welcome to try any of the 30 SSAS - tabular exercises listed below, but please do not distribute them in any form without asking for our written permission first.
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Creating a data model |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Create a full data model in SSDT, deploy it and create a pivot table including a slicer from it. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Excel pivot tables |
| Level: |
Harder than average |
| Exercise: |
Without much help, create a data model, two pivot tables and a single controlling slicer. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
PowerView |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Create a data model, and from this a Power View report with a table, chart and tiles. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
PowerView |
| Level: |
Harder than average |
| Exercise: |
Create a Power View report based on a tabular model, with a multiple pie chart. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Other data sources |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Bring in data from Excel, Access and Word (via the clipboard) to create a 4-table data model. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Calculated columns |
| Level: |
Relatively easy |
| Exercise: |
Bring columns from different tables into a single table using the RELATED function. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Calculated columns |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Count the number of rows in a related table, using the RELATEDTABLE function. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Calculated columns |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Create 3 calculated columns using & (concatenation), the YEAR function and the SWITCH function. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Measures |
| Level: |
Relatively easy |
| Exercise: |
Divide a table up into price categories using a simple CALCULATE function. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Measures |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Show sales as a percentage of total sales for all families, using CALCULATE. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Measures |
| Level: |
Harder than average |
| Exercise: |
Use AVERAGEX and CALCULATE to show true ratios of area to units for shopping centres. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Changing query context |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Compare land and non-land data in a pivot table, using the VALUES function to modify the query context. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
DAX queries |
| Level: |
Relatively easy |
| Exercise: |
Use the EVALUATE and TOPN functions in DAX queries to list out rows from tables. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
DAX queries |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Use the SUMMARIZE function to show how many rows there are for each calendar year/quarter. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
DAX queries |
| Level: |
Harder than average |
| Exercise: |
Use ADDCOLUMNS and DEFINE MEASURE to create and show additional columns for a DAX query. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Date calculations |
| Level: |
Relatively easy |
| Exercise: |
Use the SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR and DATEADD functions to calculate and show totals. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Date calculations |
| Level: |
Relatively easy |
| Exercise: |
Use the TOTALYTD and TOTALQTD to calculate and show cumulative yearly and quarterly totals. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Date calculations |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Use various DAX calendar-based functions to return interesting statistics!. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Hierarchies |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Create a geographical hierarchy, and use it to analyse sales by region, town, etc. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
KPIs |
| Level: |
Relatively easy |
| Exercise: |
Create a KPI to show if this quarter's sales exceed the previous quarter's. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
KPIs |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Use absolute KPIs to show for each product whether it has 5% of total sales. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Perspectives |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Present different data models to different users by creating simple a perspective. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Security |
| Level: |
Average difficulty |
| Exercise: |
Create two simple roles to limit access to your data model to particular types of animal. |
| Software: |
SSAS - tabular |
| Topic: |
Security |
| Level: |
Harder than average |
| Exercise: |
Use the CustomUser field and a permissions table to control access to a model using roles. |
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