SSAS - tabular | Security exercise | Create terrestrial and airborne roles limiting access to data

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Software ==> SSAS - tabular  (30 exercises)
Version ==> SSAS 2012 and later
Topic ==> Security  (2 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
Course ==> SSAS - Tabular Model
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  1. Go into SQL Server Management Studio;
  2. Open the SQL file you've just unzipped (you can press CTRL + O to do this); then
  3. Execute this script.

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Create a new project and model (perhaps you could use this exercise number to name it), importing three tables: tblFamily, tblProduct and tblPurchase.

Create two roles as follows:

Role Table Restrictions
Terrestrial Family The family name can not be Bird.
Airborne Family The family name must be Bird.

You should give your roles read access to the model:

The roles

What the roles should look like!

 

Finally, test each role:

Testing roles

Here's what you should see when you analyse the model in Excel using the Terrestrial role.

 

That's it!

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