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Power BI Desktop is coming
Microsoft is going to release the new Power BI service on Friday, July 24th. The number of new features is huge, but remember that this is just the beginning of a new wave of continuous updates,...
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The new Power BI Desktop is here #powerbi #dax
After months of public preview, Microsoft today is releasing the Power BI service to general availability. The preview was really a beta that evolved in these months, and I personally liked the...
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VertiPaq Analyzer for Analysis Services #ssas #tabular #powerpivot #powerbi
During the writing of The Definitive Guide to DAX I wanted a simple way to analyze the content and distribution of data compressed in the VertiPaq engine, used by Analysis Services Tabular, Power Pivot...
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The ALLSELECTED function under the cover #dax #tabular #powerpivot #powerbi
I and Alberto Ferrari recently completed the writing of The Definitive Guide to DAX, and we spent months to correctly describe the internals of evaluation context in this language. There are many...
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Zero Inbox
This is a blog post completely unrelated to the technical content I’m used to cover. But I’ve been asked so many times how I do handle my mail that I thought having a blog post will save me time to...
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DAX Formatter now supports Power BI Desktop and Excel 2016 #dax #powerbi
If you use DAX, you should try DAX Formatter. Now it supports all the new functions introduced in Power BI Desktop and in Excel 2016.There are more than 70 new functions, even if half of them...
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Large Dimensions in SSAS Tabular #ssas #vertipaq
After many years of helping several companies around the world creating small and large data models using SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular, I’ve seen a common performance issue that is...
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Power BI Desktop & Excel
The August 2015 update of Power BI Desktop added two important features for existing Excel and Analysis Services users:Import Excel Power BI artifacts (Data Model, Queries, Power View) into a new Power...
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Back to the basic: #dax primers for new #powerbi users
The growing adoption of Power BI Desktop is gathering new users of the DAX language. At the same time, there are a few new features, such as bidirectional filter propagation, that introduce new...
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Don’t ignore the Context Transition in #dax
Almost 3 years ago I wrote an article with the rules for DAX code formatting. If you quickly look at the article, you might think that it is all about readability of the code, and this is fundamentally...
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Fix performance issue of pivot tables with Tabular models
If you use SSAS Tabular, this is a very important news!Microsoft released a very important update for Analysis Services 2012 that provides performance improvements to pivot tables connected to an...
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Synoptic Panel for Power BI Best Visual Contest #powerbi #contest
Today (September 30, 2015) is the last day to submit an entry in the Power BI Best Visual contest. I and Daniele Perilli (who has the skills to design and implement UI) spent hours thinking about...
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When to use calculated tables in #dax
In the September release of Power BI Desktop, Microsoft introduced a new important feature: calculated tables. Chris Webb wrote a quick introduction to this feature, and Jason Thomas published a...
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A new hope. Tale from SQL Saturday 454 #sqlsat454
This is one of the few non-technical posts of this blog. Just skip it if you want to quickly come back to 100% BI related topics.Last Saturday we run the SQL Saturday 454 in Turin. I was part of the...
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The Definitive Guide to DAX is now available! #dax #powerpivot #powerbi #ssas...
I am so happy to announce that The Definitive Guide to DAX is finally available!I and Alberto Ferrari spent one year writing this book, and several years collecting the knowledge necessary to do that....
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Challenge your #dax skills with DAX Puzzle #powerbi #powerpivot
Last week we launched a new page in SQLBI website: DAX Puzzle (you can also use www.daxpuzzle.com).The idea is very simple: we describe a scenario, we ask to solve a problem in that scenario and we...
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Hardware and Virtualization Settings for Analysis Services Tabular #ssas...
If you use Analysis Services Tabular, you should dedicate a good amount of time in hardware selection. Unfortunately, throwing money in expensive hardware configuration could be a very bad idea,...
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PASS Summit 2015 and news about on-premises BI #ssas #tabular #sqlpass
I don’t usually blog about news, unless there is a relevant impact on future directions. Last week we have seen a huge number of announcements for Power BI (Custom Visuals now available to anyone...
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Announcements at PASS Summit 2015: #SSAS CTP3 and more #sqlpass #summit15
I’m sitting at the bloggers table at the Day 1 keynote of PASS Summit 2015 and I try to recap the important news for the BI community.SQL Server Analysis Services 2016 CTP 3 will be available in a few...
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Internet of Things in 2015 #summit15 #sqlpass
David DeWitt and Rimma Nehme delivered the day 2 keynote at PASS Summit 2015 talking about Internet of Things. Many PASS attendees know David for providing some of the best keynotes every, technical...
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