The CData Cmdlets Module for Azure Analysis Services is a standard
PowerShell module offering straightforward integration with Azure Analysis Services.
Below, you will
find examples of using our AAS Cmdlets with native PowerShell cmdlets.
Creating a Connection to Your Azure Analysis Services Data
To connect to Azure Analysis Services, set the Url property to a valid server, for instance, asazure://southcentralus.asazure.windows.net/server, in addition to authenticating. Optionally, set Database to distinguish which Azure database on the server to connect to.
Azure Analysis Services uses the OAuth authentication standard. OAuth requires the authenticating user to interact with Azure Analysis Services using the browser.
You can connect without setting any connection properties for your user credentials. See the Help documentation for more information.
$conn = Connect-AAS -URL "$URL"
Selecting Data
Follow the steps below to retrieve data from the Customer table and pipe the result into to a CSV file:
Select-AAS -Connection $conn -Table Customer | Select -Property * -ExcludeProperty Connection,Table,Columns | Export-Csv -Path c:\myCustomerData.csv -NoTypeInformation
You will notice that we piped the results from Select-AAS into a Select-Object cmdlet and excluded some properties
before piping them into an Export-Csv cmdlet. We do this because the CData Cmdlets append Connection, Table, and
Columns information onto each "row" in the result set, and we do not necessarily want that information in our CSV file.
The Connection, Table, and Columns are appended to the results in order to facilitate piping results from one of the
CData Cmdlets directly into another one.