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First spring conference: PASS Business Analytics Conference and SQL Bits...
Spring is a conferences’ season and the upcoming one is no exception. I will be speaking at PASS Business Analytics Conference 2013, which will be the first event this year, so I’d like to spend a few...
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Hardware Sizing Guide for #ssas #tabular
A common question I receive is about how to correctly size a server for an Analysis Services Tabular instance. I always answer that an analytical evaluation is partly an empiric process, because there...
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The Right Version of Excel 2013 for using PowerPivot #powerpivot #excel
Many people started using PowerPivot with Excel 2010. In order to start using PowerPivot for Excel 2010, you just have to download the add-in and install it for free. In Excel 2013, PowerPivot is...
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DAX Time Intelligence for 4-4-5 Calendar, ISO Calendar and other custom ones...
DAX offers a set of Time Intelligence functions that simplify writing DAX expressions such as YTD, YOY and other time-related calculations. However, these functions only works when some assumptions are...
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SQLBits XI in May 2013 – many reasons to attend! #sqlbits #dax #tabular
I and Alberto Ferrari will speak at SQLBits XI (Nottingham, UK – May 2-4, 2013) and there are many good reasons to join us there, especially if you are interested to DAX!Here are our sessions:Thursday,...
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Workshop and Events in Europe next month #ssas #tabular #powerpivot
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I and Alberto are starting to travel again, delivering SSAS Tabular Workshop and other free community events around Europe. This is the updated list of our next...
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Querying with DAX video available on Project Botticelli #dax #ssas #powerpivot
I recently published a video session on Project Botticelli web site regarding querying in DAX. You can write DAX queries to extract data from both PowerPivot and SSAS Tabular models. This could be...
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Update to the PowerPivot for Excel 2013 licensing #powerpivot #excel
Rob Collie Ken Puls (thanks Bob!) wrote a very interesting post about the PowerPivot for Excel 2013 licensing.Short recap:PowerPivot for Excel 2013 is only available in a few editions of Excel/Office...
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Microsoft BI Security White Paper #ssas #powerpivot #sharepoint #ssrs
There is a new whitepaper from Microsoft, Microsoft BI Authentication and Identity Delegation, which describes all the authentication and delegation scenarios with Microsoft BI technologies:Personal BI...
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Discount for PASS Business Analytics Conference 2013 #passbac #ssas #sqlpass
One month ago I wrote about my sessions at PASS Business Analytics Conference 2013, in Chicago, IL on April 10-12, 2013. If you still have not registered, you can save $200 by using the code BAC228BL...
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Cost of Process Defrag in Analysis Services Tabular #ssas #tabular
I recently received a question about the memory required to run a Process Defrag on a Tabular model in Analysis Services. The Process Defrag is useful when you run incremental processing of a table...
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Pre-Conference Seminar about DAX at TechEd 2013 #msteched #dax #ssas
If you are using Microsoft BI stack and you still didn’t start learning DAX, you should not wait any longer. One of the option you have is starting with one of our books, or you can also attend one of...
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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...
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New PowerPivot 2013 book available! #excel #powerpivot
Our new book about PowerPivot 2013 is finally available in printed edition, too!The title is Microsoft Excel 2013: Building Data Models with PowerPivotand it is a partial rewriting of the previous book...
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Optimize memory in #powerpivot and #ssas #tabular
Microsoft published an interesting article about how to optimize memory consumption of a PowerPivot Data Model in Excel 2013. All these suggestions are also valid for SSAS Tabular. I also wrote an...
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PASS BA Conference 2013 keynote coverage tomorrow #passbac #sqlpass
The PASS Business Analytics Conference starts today in Chicago. In the next two days, there will be two keynotes. The most famous Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, will be on stage on Friday, and...
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SQLLunch on April 23 in London and Cardiff #sqlpass #dax #sqllunch
On April 23 I will present DAX in Action in London and Cardiff at SQLLunch event.How is it possible I will be in two places at the same time?This will be a remote presentation delivered in two...
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LASTNONBLANK and FIRSTNONBLANK functions work with any column #dax...
During a PowerPivot Workshop course we received an interesting question from a student: “Can I use LASTNONBLANK (and FIRSTNONBLANK) with a column which is not a date column?”The reason is that we...
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Advanced DAX course in May - unique date in 1H 2013 #dax #tabular #ssas...
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...
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PowerPivot Workbook Size Optimizer #powerpivot #tabular
Microsoft released the Workbook Size Optimizer for Excel, the first version of an Excel add-in for Excel 2013 that inspects the data model and suggest possible optimizations. Fundamentally, it tries to...
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