During the last months I’ve seen an increasing adoption of Analysis Services Tabular (and I’m writing a longer article about a particular area of adoption which was probably not expected – more on that in a few weeks). This year…  Read more

I already announced a few weeks ago that I and Alberto will speak at SQLBits in Liverpool. We will also speak at SQLPASS Summit in Seattle and at SQLRally Nordic. A few details about my sessions: SQLPASS Summit (Seattle, WA…  Read more

The summer is almost over and while we are working on new content (books and other), I already have the plans for this Autumn’s conferences. Microsoft Ignite 2016 – September 26-30, Atlanta, GA See what’s new in SQL Server Analysis…  Read more

I will be a speaker at PASS Summit 2010 (November 8-11, 2010 – Seattle, WA) and sessions have been published yesterday. I am currently writing the last chapter of the book about PowerPivot that will be available in September, so…  Read more

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 through a gallery online, you can…  Read more

In the last months I talked mostly about PowerPivot, but Analysis Services is still growing and a very good sign of that is the number of downloads of The Many-to-Many Revolution whitepaper, who has been published almost 5 years ago…  Read more

Last week the final session evaluations from PASS Summit 2011 have been communicated to speakers and best scores have been made public. My session was not particularly good: it had very good feedback (overall average 4.32) and some average one,…  Read more

I will deliver two sessions at the next PASS Summit 2012: one is title Inside DAX Query Plans and the other is Near Real-Time Analytics with xVelocity (without DirectQuery). These will be two sessions that require a lot of preparation…  Read more

On January 18th, 2012 at 12pm Eastern Time (which is 5pm GM) Alberto Ferrari will deliver a free online session for the PASS DW/BI Virtual Chapter. This is the official description of the session. Many-to-Many Relationships in DAX The introduction…  Read more

In the last two years, I and Alberto Ferrari delivered many courses about Power Pivot, SSAS Tabular, and DAX. We had DAX content in many of the courses, and this created some overlapping and the lack of a clear guidance…  Read more