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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...
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SSAS Tabular Workshop online and other upcoming dates (and updates!) #ssas...
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...
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Optimize SUMMARIZE with ADDCOLUMNS in Dax #ssas #tabular #dax #powerpivot
If you started using DAX as a query language, you might have encountered some performance issues by using SUMMARIZE. The problem is related to the calculation you put in the SUMMARIZE, by adding what...
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Parallelize incremental processing in Tabular #ssas #tabular
I recently came in a problem trying to improve the parallelism of Tabular processing. As you know, multiple tables can be processed in parallel, whereas the processing of several partitions within the...
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Community Events in Köln (October) and Copenhagen November #ssas #tabular...
Short update about community events in Europe where I will speak.On October 11 I will present DAX in Action in Köln - all details in the PASS local chapter here:...
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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...
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LASTDATE dates arguments and upcoming events #dax #tabular #powerpivot
Recently I had to write a DAX formula containing a LASTDATE within the logical condition of a FILTER: I found that its behavior was not the one I expected and I further investigated. At the end, I...
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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...
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CUBEMEMBER and CUBEVALUE stop working after #PowerPivot upgrade to #Excel 2013
I found an issue upgrading an Excel workbook containing PowerPivot data from Excel 2010 to Excel 2013. All CUBEMEMBER and CUBEVALUE functions point to a cube name that has been changed between the two...
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Meet SQLBI at PASS Summit 2012 #sqlpass
Next week I and Alberto Ferrari will be in Seattle at PASS Summit 2012. You can meet us at our sessions, at a book signing and hopefully watching some other session during the conference. Here are our...
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DATE function does not support all the dates in DAX by design #powerpivot...
The DATE function in DAX has this simple syntax:DATE( <year>, <month>, <day> )If you are like me, you never read the BOL notes that says in a clear way that it supports dates...
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PASS Summit 2012: keynote and Mobile BI announcements #sqlpass
Today at PASS Summit 2012 there have been several announcements during the keynote. Moreover, other news have not been highlighted in the keynote but are equally if not more important for the BI...
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Community Events and Workshops in November 2012 #ssas #tabular #powerpivot
I and Alberto have a busy agenda until the end of the month, but if you are based in Northern Europe there are many chance to meet one of us in the next couple of weeks!Belgium, 20 November 2012 – SQL...
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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...
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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...
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Linked Table, Reverse Linked Table and Linkback Table in Excel 2013 #powerpivot
Kasper de Jonge wrote a blog post last year introducing an interesting new feature in Excel 2013: you can write a DAX query that extracts data from the PowerPivot model and returns a table in Excel....
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Execute a #DAX Query on #SSAS #Tabular in #Excel
Apparently Excel does not offer a way to import data in Excel by using a DAX query on Analysis Services. The Data Connection Wizard seems to offers only the ability to create a PivotTable when you...
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New PowerPivot Workshop for Excel 2013 available! #powerpivot #excel2013 #excel
The Microsoft has launched the new Office 2013, we are proud to announce the availability of the new PowerPivot Workshop for Excel 2013! We have a fresh new website that offers all the training...
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March 2013 Events and Workshops in Aarhus, DK and Utrecht, NL #ssas #powerpivot
Spring is coming and we published many dates of SSAS Tabular Workshops around Europe and online.Alberto Ferrari is coming to Aarhus, Denmark, for a 2-day SSAS Tabular Workshop on March 12-13, 2013 (you...
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First DAX Advanced Workshop in London, May 2013 #dax #tabular #ssas
Are you working with SSAS Tabular? Are you an experienced PowerPivot user? In both cases, you should be aware that there is only one skill that is important for PowerPivot and SSAS Tabular, and it is...
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