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Earlier versions of Analysis Services client libraries will retire on 30 June 2021
Target retirement date: June 30, 2021
Update your Analytics Services client libraries to version 15.1.37.40 or higher by 30 June 2021.
.NET Core support for Analysis Services client libraries is generally available
Today, we are announcing general availability (GA) of Analysis Services client libraries for .NET Core, along with several enhancements.
October 2020
Analysis Services Tabular improves MDX query performance in the cloud
With a recent update of the Analysis Services Tabular engine in Azure Analysis Services (AAS) and in Power BI, Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) clients, such as Microsoft Excel, can now enjoy improved query performance. This MDX performance improvement alleviates some of the optimization burden for measures used in a PivotTable.
September 2020
Azure S8 and S9 Analysis Services SKUs retiring on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Migrate to S8V2 or S9V2 SKUs
April 2020
Azure Analysis Services—Improved query replica synchronisation now available
Improved query replica synchronisation in Azure Analysis Services is now generally available. Analysis Services features improved query-replica synchronisation in scale-out environments with client queries distributed across one or more query replicas, reducing response times for high concurrency workloads.
Azure Analysis Services—Query interleaving is now generally available
Query interleaving in Azure Analysis Services is now generally available. Query interleaving helps to improve the user experience in high-concurrency scenarios where a lot of queries are submitted close to each other.
Many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services are now generally available
Many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services are now generally available. These are relationships between tables where both columns are non-unique and are based on many-to-many relationships in Power BI.
Azure Analysis Services calculation groups are now generally available
Calculation groups for Azure Analysis Services are now generally available. Use them to declutter the user interface and improve the overall navigation experience for your users.
March 2020
Improved resource governance for Azure Analysis Services
Today, we are excited to announce the release of two enhancements concerning the memory governance options of Azure Analysis Services. Specifically, the enhancements improve the accuracy of the…
January 2020
Improved query replica synchronisation in Azure Analysis Services is in preview
A new Azure Analysis Services setting (in preview) improves performance and consistency of query-replica synchronisation in scale-out environments.
October 2019
Azure Analysis Services utility for QPU auto-scale
Azure Analysis Services QPU AutoScale enables automatic customisable scaling for AAS instances.
SQL Server Data Tools support for 1500 compatibility level
We are pleased to announce that SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for Analysis Services now supports tabular models with 1500 compatibility level.
September 2019
Azure Analysis Services—Two new higher compute SKUs are now available
Target availability: Q3 2019
Two new SKUs for Azure Analysis Services, S8V2 and S9V2, are now available. These SKUs are based on next-generation hardware and have double the QPU (abstraction of CPU) of the existing S8/S9 SKUs.
Improved query replica synchronisation in Azure Analysis Services is in development
Target availability: Q3 2019
A new Azure Analysis Services setting now in development will improve performance and consistency of query-replica synchronisation in scale-out environments.
Azure Analysis Services diagnostic logging improvements for scale-out
Target availability: Q3 2019
Get targeted log analysis with improvements to the Diagnostic Logs extension of Azure Analysis Services. Diagnostic Logs now allow you to access and break out server metrics for each query replica with the scale-out feature.
Azure Analysis Services scale-out improvement
Target availability: Q3 2019
Synchronisation of query replicas in Azure Analysis Services scale-out environments now uses an optimised copy API, which significantly reduces synchronisation time on average.
July 2019
In development: query interleaving for Azure Analysis Services
Target availability: Q4 2019
Enterprise BI systems need to support high user concurrency, which means there can be lots of queries submitted close to each other. We are pleased to announce that we are working on the query interleaving feature, which allows system configuration to improve the user experience in high-concurrency scenarios. Query interleaving allows configuration to improve the user experience in high-concurrency scenarios. Multiple queries can run concurrently so fast queries are not blocked behind slow ones. Query interleaving can be set up with short-query bias so if the system is under CPU pressure, short queries are allocated a higher proportion of CPU resources than long-running queries, allowing them to complete faster.
June 2019
Public preview of calculation groups in Azure Analysis Services
Target availability: Q3 2019
We are pleased to announce calculation groups are now officially in public preview for Azure Analysis Services!
Public preview of many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services
Target availability: Q3 2019
Many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services allow relationships between tables where both columns are non-unique.
April 2019
New governance setting for cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services
The new ClientCacheRefreshPolicy property allows IT or the Analysis Services practitioner to disable automatic cache refreshes.
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