August 2012 - Posts

• SSAS Tabular Workshop online and other upcoming dates (and updates!) #ssas #tabular

  After many conferences and travels, this summer I had some time to write and prepare new sessions for the next wave of conferences. In reality I am just doing that, even if I already restarted traveling for consulting and training. So expect new content Read More... Posted Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:27 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, BIDS, SSAS, Tabular

• New videos available #dax #ssas #powerpivot

  The collaboration I and Alberto started with Project Botticelli is starting producing content. At this point we have three videos available: DAX in Action shows the power of DAX in PowerPivot solving common patterns not so easy or fast to solve in other Read More... Posted Friday, August 24, 2012 4:21 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 1 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, DAX, PowePivot

• xVelocity engines compared: VertiPaq vs ColumnStore #ssas #vertipaq #xvelocity #sql #tabular

  During the last months I and Alberto worked in several projects using Analysis Services Tabular and we had to face real world issues, such as complex queries, large data volume, frequent data updates and so on. Sometime we faced the challenge of comparing Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:56 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, BISM, SSAS, Tabular

• DAX in Action teaser video available – #dax #ssas #powerpivot

  I and Alberto started a collaboration with Rafal Lukawiecki and we will publish video tutorial on the Project Botticelli web site. The first video is already available: DAX in Action shows you how the power of DAX in PowerPivot solving a common pattern Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2012 3:27 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments Filed under: DAX, Tabular