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tool choice to create SSAS tabular cube - Power BI Desktop vs Visual Studio
Super UserAnonymous I guess this will help Power BI as a superset of Azure Analysis Services | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI
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Thanks for the link. That was very helpful. Is it safe to say that, if you use Power BI shared capacity, then use AAS (or SSAS) for the cube creation, but if you use Power BI Premium, then use Power BI?
Also, I found this link:
Choosing to Model in Power BI vs SSAS Tabular (pragmaticworks.com)
- bcdobbs
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I think you might be confusing some of your terminology.
Power Bi/VS/Tabular Editor all work on tabular models. It's just a choice of which interface you like (some expose more than others).bcdobbs I understand that all of those tools work on tabular models. I was just wondering what the pros / cons for each of them are (for creating / maintaining a tabular model).
parry2k From the link that you gave, it seems that Power BI Premium (not Power BI shared capacity) includes all of the functionality of AAS (and more). So, from a feature perspective, it would make sense to use Power BI Desktop (or probably Tabular Editor, since it's more feature-rich) for the cube creation if you use Power BI Premium. Conversely, if you just have shared capacity, then it would make sense to use AAS, SSAS, or Tabular Editor.
