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DAX Studio for Excel 2013 finally available! #dax #excel #powerpivot #ssas...
I'm so happy that DAX Studio finally supports Excel 2013! As Darren Gosbell described in his blog, this release has a few internal changes that will better support future enhancements. I will port the...
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Group Sales by Age of Customers #dax #powerpivot #tabular
I published an article describing how to implement the grouping of sales transactions by age of customer at the moment of the transaction by using PowerPivot or Analysis Services. The same pattern can...
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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...
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How Far Can You Push Tabular? Birds of a Feather at TechEd 2013–North America...
I and Alberto Ferrari will moderate the following Birds of a Feather session at TechEd North America 2013:CODE: BOF-ITP21 TITLE: How Far Can You Push Tabular?SPEAKER: A. Ferrari; M. Russo TIMESLOT:...
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Not selected as a speaker at PASS Summit 2013 #sqlpass #sqlfamily
I received the communication from the PASS Program Committee that none of my proposals have been accepted at PASS Summit 2013. Probably this year there was too many proposals and I made a mistake not...
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Campaign for #PowerPivot and #Tabular textual modeling language #msbi #ssas
If you think PowerPivot and Tabular are good tools but sometime the design tools are not fast/complete/flexible enough, please consider voting this suggestion on Connect to request a textual...
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Common request: export #Tabular model and data to #PowerPivot
I received this request in many courses, messages and also forum discussions: having an Analysis Services Tabular model, it would be nice being able to extract a correspondent PowerPivot data model. In...
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Watch #TechEd sessions online for free #powerpivot #dax
The sessions recorded at TechEd 2013 are online. I and Alberto Ferrari delivered the same sessions and the recording are available for both TechEd North America and TechEd Europe.It’s nice for me being...
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Understanding #DAX Query Plans for #powerpivot and #tabular
Alberto Ferrari wrote a very interesting white paper about DAX query plans. We published it on a page where we'll gather articles and tools about DAX query plans:...
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Performance Tuning of #tabular models in Analysis Services 2012 #ssas
In the last weeks the Microsoft BI buzzword has been Power BI for Office 365, which will be available soon in preview. I read a few comments about the fact that there is a constant discussion about the...
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Excel 2013 stand-alone now includes #powerpivot
This time Microsoft listened to the many complaints received since Excel 2013 release and the stand-alone version of Excel now includes Power Pivot and Power View! This is a very important news because...
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SSAS Maestro and MCM:BI, MCA:BI, MCSM:BI – make your voice heard #ssas #mcsm...
Two years ago Microsoft started a certification program called SSAS Maestro, which was intended to be as a step towards a broader certification such as a Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) or...
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Dynamic Calculation of Inventory with #dax in #powerpivot and #ssas #tabular
I recently wrote an article on SQLBI describing the dynamic calculation of stock inventory in DAX. With this technique, you can avoid creating a snapshot fact table just to store the inventory stock...
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Microsoft shut down MCM/MCSM/MCA programs–my recap #msmcm
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about MCSM for BI certification. This raised an interesting discussion about the reasons why such a certification does not exists, whether it was really...
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Time Intelligence Video Tutorial on Project Botticelli #dax #powerpivot #ssas
Alberto Ferrari recently recorded a free short video introduction about what is time intelligence.When you have to perform time-related calculations in Power Pivot or in Analysis Services Tabular, you...
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Calculating First and Second Year of Sales by Customer in #dax #powerpivot...
I recently wrote an article that describes how to calculate a measure (such a sales, but it could be anything else) considering for each customer its first 12 months, then months 13-24 and so on. In...
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Handling Wrong or Missing Dates in Tabular and #powerpivot #dax
Recently I received a request from a reader related to the handling of missing or invalid dates in Tabular (but the same can be applied to Power Pivot). In the Analysis Services Tabular book, we wrote...
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SSAS Tabular Workshop in 3 days with hands-on-labs #ssas #tabular #dax
I and Alberto Ferrari delivered many SSAS Tabular Workshops in the last 18 months and based on the feedback we received, we are moving toward a renewed edition. Instead of a 2-day seminar, we will run...
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Using USERELATIONSHIP function in Measures and Calculated Columns #dax...
You can use the USERELATIONSHIP function in DAX to apply a non-active relationship in a particular DAX calculation. This approach is usually simple in a measure (just use USERELATIOSHIP in one of the...
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Difference between LASTDATE and MAX for semi-additive measures in #DAX
I recently wrote an article on SQLBI about the semi-additive measures in DAX. I included the formulas common calculations and there is an interesting point that worth a longer digression: the...
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