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• PowerPivot Compatibility across versions

  There are several versions of PowerPivot available and starting with Excel 2013 there are also several versions of Excel. It is useful to look at the compatibility between the different versions of Excel and PowerPivot available now. As a general rule Read More... Posted Monday, January 14, 2013 2:44 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 6 Comments Filed under: Excel, PowerPivot, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012

• MDX Studio download #mdx #ssas

  Short version: the latest available version of MDX Studio can be downloaded from http://www.sqlbi.com/tools/mdx-studio/ Long version: Last week Stacia Misner twitted that the online version of MDX Studio was no longer available. It was hosted on http://mdx.mosha.com Read More... Posted Monday, September 24, 2012 2:52 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 16 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, MDX, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012, UDM

• New licensing for SQL Server 2012 and #BISM #Tabular usage

  Last week Microsoft announced a new licensing schema for SQL Server 2012. If you are interested in an extensive discussion of the new licensing scheme, Denny Cherry wrote a great blog post about that. I’d like to comment about the new BI Edition license. Read More... Posted Sunday, November 06, 2011 11:11 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 12 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, BISM, Business Intelligence, SQL Server 2012