December 2014 - Posts

• The Power BI dashboard in public preview - available also without Office #powerbi

  Microsoft released a new version of Power BI in preview mode, including many new visualizations that are immediately available to all existing subscribers also in production, such as the long waited treemap, combo charts (combining line chart and column Read More... Posted Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:22 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 8 Comments Filed under: SSAS, Power BI

• Rename table, columns, and measures in #ssas #tabular without breaking existing #dax

  A feature that many people require in SSAS Tabular is the ability to refactor existing names, doing a correspondent rename in all existing objects in the model. I agree that this is an important feature that should be added in the development environment, Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2014 7:37 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: SSAS, Tabular

• DAX Studio 2.0 finally available! #dax #ssas #tabular #powerpivot

  Darren Gosbell announced on his blog that DAX Studio 2.0 is available. This new release has a completely new user interface, a renewed architecture and also work as a standalone executable without Excel. Yes, you read it right. You can use DAX Studio Read More... Posted Monday, December 8, 2014 8:24 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments Filed under: SSAS, PowerPivot, DAX