Stairway to SSAS Tabular Level 6: Creating Meaningful Measures
In this sixth level of the SSAS Tabular stairway, learn how to create meaningful measures.
2025-01-01 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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Thomas LeBlanc
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Stairway to SSAS Tabular Level 5: Cleaning up Dimensions
In this fifth level of the SSAS Tabular stairway, learn how to clean up dimensions.
2024-12-25 (first published: 2019-01-28)
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Stairway to SSAS Tabular Level 4: Implementing Date Dimensions
In this first level of the SSAS Tabular stairway, learn how to implement and format a date dimension.
2024-12-04 (first published: 2018-09-12)
11,625 reads
Stairway to SSAS Tabular Level 3: Creating a Tabular Project
This article shows you how to create an Analysis Services Tabular Model project, import data from World Wide Importers database, create a measure and analyze in Excel.
2024-11-06 (first published: 2018-07-30)
7,534 reads
Stairway to SSAS Tabular Level 7: Time Intelligence
Time Intelligence is a common methodology in Dimensional Modeling that allows for calculations of measures based on relative dates. These include “To-Date” measures like Year to Date or Quarter to Date as well as Previous Period comparisons. Once these are created within a model, other DAX functions can be used for metrics like Year over […]
2022-10-24 (first published: 2019-07-10)
6,054 reads
Stairway to SSAS Tabular Level 9: Security and Roles
In the ninth level of this stairway, learn how to add security to the tabular model.
2022-06-22 (first published: 2020-03-11)
9,052 reads
Stairway to SSAS Tabular Level 1: Why use Analysis Services
In this first level of the SSAS Tabular stairway, learn the benefits of implementing an SSAS solution.
2021-10-06 (first published: 2018-07-11)
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2020-10-28 (first published: 2020-10-14)
6,616 reads
Stairway to SSAS Tabular Level 10: Multiple Dates in Fact Table
In this level of the stairway, learn about multiple dates in fact table
2020-06-10
5,780 reads
Stairway to SSAS Tabular Level 8: Multiple Fact Tables and Perspectives
In this eighth step of the SSAS Tabular Stairway start to expand the model beyond one fact table.
2019-10-09
16,384 reads
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Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers