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• From 0 to DAX at TechEd Pre-Conference Seminar #dax #msteched #tee13

  In June I and Alberto will deliver a pre-conference seminar at both TechEd North America (New Orleans, LA) and TechEd Europe (Madrid, Spain). This day is a very good quickstart for those of you that still didn't complete one of our books , or those of Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 07, 2013 3:54 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: DAX, PowePivot, SSAS, Tabular

• Advanced DAX course in May - unique date in 1H 2013 #dax #tabular #ssas #powerpivot

  One year after the release of SQL Server 2012 I see the growing demand for DAX. There are two reasons for that: an higher number of PowerPivot users started to build more complex data models, and SSAS Tabular is starting to be adopted by a larger number Read More... Posted Monday, April 22, 2013 11:55 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 3 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, DAX, PowePivot, SSAS, Tabular

• Interviewed in SQL Down Under podcast #sqlserver #ssas #powerpivot

  I’ve been interviewed by Greg Low in SQL Down Under show 58, and this is *not* an April fool! We talked for one hour about Tabular, Multidimensional, Data Warehouse and just a little bit about music (you can discover which music genre I’m used to listen…). Read More... Posted Monday, April 01, 2013 9:03 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, Communities, PowePivot, SSAS, Tabular

• End of 2012 and news in 2013 for #PowerPivot, #ssas #tabular and BI

  This year is going to end, Maya failed their predictions and while this is bad for predictive industry, it’s also good for all of us! We’ve seen many news in Microsoft BI stack: Excel 2013 has been RTM’d – its General Availability is expected in early Read More... Posted Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:26 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, DAX, PowePivot, Power View, SSAS, Tabular

• A proposal for #DAX Code Formatting #ssas #powerpivot #tabular

  I recently published a set of rules for DAX code formatting . The following is an example of what I obtain: CALCULATE ( SUMX ( Orders, Orders[Amount] ), FILTER ( ALL ( Customers ), CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS ( Sales ), ALL ( Calendar[Date] ) ) > 42 + 8 Read More... Posted Monday, October 22, 2012 3:10 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: DAX, PowePivot, SSAS, Tabular

• A new SQL, a new Analysis Services, a new Workshop! #ssas #sql2012

  One week ago Microsoft SQL Server 2012 finally debuted with a virtual launch event and you can find many intro sessions there (20 minutes each). There is a lot of new content available if you want to learn more about SQL 2012 and in this blog post I’d Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:03 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments Filed under: BISM, PowePivot, SSAS, Tabular

• Vote a bug and a missing feature in #powerpivot #denali #ctp3 on #connect

  If you have 30 seconds available, please vote the following items on Connect: https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/679618/import-attribute-key-from-ssas-in-powerpivot When you import data coming from an Analysis Services cube in PowerPivot, Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:24 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, BIDS, BISM, CTP3, Denali, MDX, PowePivot, SSAS

• #BISM Introduction and #PowerPivot Advanced Data Modeling #sqlbits video available

  As Chris announced in his blog, some of the sessions from the SQLBits 8 in Brighton are already available (for free!). Yesterday I watched more than half of my BISM Introduction session just to check that no NDA was broken. And, believe it or not, the Read More... Posted Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:16 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, BISM, PowePivot, SSAS