February 2012 - Posts

• Create a #dax Measure in a Session in #BISM #Tabular

  Thanks to Greg Galloway that pointed me out this is possible, in this post I want to show how to create a measure local to a session. This could be done in SQL Server Management Studio, even if it is probably not so useful for a Tabular model considering Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:47 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 12 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, BISM, Tabular

• How to Incrementally Process your #Tabular Model by Using Process Add in #ssas

  I recently wrote an article about how to implement a Process Add on a table in a Tabular model . This is an area where there is a lack of documentation by Microsoft, especially if you want to use a custom binding query for every Process Add command, which Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:31 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 8 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, BISM, Tabular

• Looking for Speakers at #PASS DW/BI Virtual Chapter

  I recently joined Chris Webb , Jen Stirrup and Alberto Ferrari as PASS Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Virtual Chapter for Europe. We will increase the number of virtual sessions delivered in a comfortable European time zone and we are looking Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:24 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Communities, PASS

• Memory Settings in #Tabular #ssas (and Prepare for #msteched!)

  We are going very close to the release of SQL Server 2012 and after using Analysis Services 2012 for almost one year in a relatively small number of scenarios, I’m really curios to see the questions and the issues that will emerge when its adoption will Read More... Posted Monday, February 6, 2012 11:57 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: SSAS, BISM, Tabular