
Run setup and navigate to the Installation type selection:Īnd select "Perform a new installation of SQL Server 2016"Ĭlick Next and under feature selection choose Analysis Services:Ĭhoose named instance and give it a proper name in my case it is: MSSQLServer_TABĬlick Next and configure service settings about account and startup.

Now we are going to install TABULAR mode on another "named" instance of SQL Server. Set up your startup settings for this service:Īnd the main part is to select in which mode our server analysis service will be in this case on ma "main" SQL Server instance I will use Multidimensional and Data Mining Mode.Ĭlick on next and install it, wait a couple of minutes depending on your PC and you will be good to go with your analysis service in OLAP mode. Next, choose the default instance for this analysis service: Navigate to feature selection and select Analysis Services: If you have installed SQL Server with basic features, now we will install Analysis Services with OLAP model. If you already have TABULAR or OLAP (Multidimensional) installed on your SQL Server instance skip next steps and go to the part where I am installing Analysis Services on named instance. Now, this tutorial will be based on if you don't have any selection in part of Analysis Services.

If you are not familiar with installation please take a look at my tutorial in this blog post here: įollow all the steps and at the end, you will have your DB engine and other stuff that you select in the part of the feature selection.
#Analysis services tabular vs multidimensional how to
If you don't know how to do that, let's get started with tutorial: Install SQL Server 2016. Short answer will be you need to have two instances of SQL Server one for OLAP and other named instance for TABULAR. So the topic of this tutorial is how to have both Tabular and Multidimensional Model in one SQL Server 2016.

At the time I am writing this simple tutorial I have my subject on university on topic Business Intelligence and form my final project of that subject I need to create OLAP and TABULAR for data analysis using SQL Server and other BI Tools.
