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#SSAS #Tabular Workshop and Community Events in Netherlands and Denmark
Next week I will finally start the roadshow of the SSAS Tabular Workshop, a 2-day seminar about the new BISM Tabular model for Analysis Services that has been introduced in SQL Server 2012. During...
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Last minute update #ssas #tabular community event in Amsterdam on April 16
We finally have the registration website for the community event about Tabular in Analysis Services in Amsterdam on April 16 evening that I introduced in my previous post - don't miss it, the...
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Order of Evaluation in CALCULATE and Clever Hierarchy Handling in #dax
After the first two editions of the SSAS Tabular Workshop, I and Alberto had some time to flush some of the pending activities. We published two articles: Clever Hierarchy Handling in DAX: DAX is not a...
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May Schedule of SSAS #Tabular Workshop for US & Europe
As you might have read in the previous post, May is a busy month for all the editions of the SSAS Tabular Workshop. We’ll start with an online edition next week in a time slot that should be good for...
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Registrations Open for SSAS Maestro in July 2012 #ssasmaestro #sass
Registrations are now open for the SSAS Maestro course in July 2012, which will take place in Milan (Italy). I introduced this course in a previous blog post and I’m not going to repeat all the details...
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SQLIO analysis on Excel charts
I tend to use twitter when I have to notify an interesting link or tool. But sometimes a blog post (even if short) is better, because allows me to easily find it on search engines...
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Optimize Many-to-Many with SUMMARIZE and Other Techniques
We are still in the early days of DAX and even if I have been using it since 2 years ago, there is still a lot to learn on that. One of the topics that historically interests me (and many of the...
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TechEd North America 2012 – Day 1 #msTechEd
Yesterday I and Alberto delivered the PreCon day about BISM Tabular in Analysis Services 2012. We received very good feedback and now I am looking forward to meet people that read our blogs and our...
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TechEd North America 2012–Day 2 #msTechEd #teched
This is the second day at TechEd North America 2012 and yesterday I had many conversations about PowerPivot and SSAS Tabular. In the evening the book signing at O’Reilley booth has been a big success!...
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TechEd North America 2012–Day 3 #msTechEd #teched
Yesterday I spent the longest day at this TechEd: we talked with many people at Community Night until 9pm and I have to say that just a few months after Analysis Services 2012 has been released, there...
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TechEd North America 2012-Day 4 #msTechEd #teched
I hadn’t time yesterday to write a blog post before of the beginning of the day and I recover now that I’m already back to Europe. I spent many hours at the Microsoft booth meeting people who asked...
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Speaking at PASS 2012 Summit in Seattle #sqlpass
I will deliver two sessions at the next PASS Summit 2012: one is title Inside DAX Query Plans and the other is Near Real-Time Analytics with xVelocity (without DirectQuery).These will be two sessions...
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Meet @marcorus and @ferrarialberto at TechEd Europe 2012 #tee2012
I and Alberto are in Amsterdam this week at TechEd Europe 2012. If you are here at the conference, you can meet us here: Wed, Jun 27 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM – Room G106 DBI319 - BISM: Multidimensional vs....
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Watch @marcorus and @ferrarialberto sessions online #teched #msteched #tee2012
In June I participated to two TechEd editions (North America and Europe). I and Alberto delivered a Pre Conference and two sessions about Tabular. Both conferences provides recorded sessions freely...
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Analysis Services Tabular books #ssas #tabular
Many people are looking for books about Analysis Services Tabular. Today there are two books available and they complement each other: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular...
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Running Excel 2013 in a separate instance #excel #powerpivot
The new Excel 2013 preview is publicly available and it introduces many new features, like an integrated version of PowerPivot and Power View. These two add-ins are automatically installed but not...
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Finally in stock: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM...
It has been a long wait, but finally our book about Analysis Services Tabular is available! Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model Amazon is already shipping it in US and...
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DAX Studio 1.0 beta available #dax #tabular #powerpivot
Are you waiting for a usable and interactive DAX editor? Are you tired of using the MDX editor provided by SSMS as a temporary solution to write and execute a DAX query? The wait is over! DAX Studio is...
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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...
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xVelocity engines compared: VertiPaq vs ColumnStore #ssas #vertipaq...
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...
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