Articles of Jan 2012
Budget and Other Data at Different Granularities in PowerPivot
PowerPivot and BISM Tabular handle relationships between tables by using a single column that requires to be a unique column in the lookup table. In this article you will see how to handle relationships between tables that have different granularities,… Read more
Optimizing High Cardinality Columns in VertiPaq
VertiPaq is the internal column-based database engine used by PowerPivot and BISM Tabular models. High cardinality columns might be the more expensive parts of a table. If you cannot remove a high cardinality column from a table, by using the… Read more
Execute DAX queries through OLE DB and ADOMD.NET
If you want to execute a DAX query from your code to a Tabular model, you might think that an OLE DB connection should be the right way to get your data. It works, but if you your code is… Read more
Memory Settings in Tabular Instances of Analysis Services
Memory settings in Analysis Services might be an important tuning of a correct setup, both for production and developer machines. Analysis Services 2012 can be installed in different ways and the new Tabular instance has new memory settings that are… Read more