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I will be a speaker this year at PASS Summit 2010 in Seattle, and I will present two sessions. The one I’d like to talk about in this post is the Inside DAX one. I chose to do this session (instead of another one that was initially planned) because when Read more
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Alberto Ferrari posted an interesting article that show how you can use a continuous value in a group of values in PowerPivot. I think this is a feature that many users would like to get in a standard Analysis Services cube, but that unfortunately requires Read more
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If you lost the SQLBI Methodology session (or any other one) at 24 Hours of PASS in September, now you can watch the recordings on-line ! I just looked at the presentation and unfortunately there are 6 minutes missing from our presentation. Thus, if you Read more
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Banding is one of the most common requirements when you have the need to analyze continuous values, like the retail price of a product which may change over time, due to discounts and price variations. I have already spoken about banding with regards Read more
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My Microsoft® PowerPivot for Excel® 2010: Give Your Data Meaning book has been printed and is now in stock on many bookstores! This is another good news of the past week, who have been dense of good news. I and Alberto have been interviewed by Vidas Matelis Read more
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A few days ago Kasper anticipated that I and Alberto will teach a 2-day PowerPivot course based on our PowerPivot book . The location will be next the Amsterdam airport, at Schiphol, Netherlands, and the dates are December 1st and 2nd, 2010. When we prepared Read more
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The sample files of the PowerPivot book are available at this page , where you can download a 260Mb zipped file containing all the Excel workbooks used in the book to make the examples. Read more
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Yesterday I had a nice time delivering the SQLBI Methodology session at 24 Hours of PASS . A few hours later, I had the news about the official RTM of the PowerPivot book I wrote with Alberto. The complete title is Microsoft® PowerPivot for Excel® 2010: Read more
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If you get an error trying to create chained relationships in PowerPivot (i.e. Customers - Orders - OrderDetails), there is a known issue with a possible workaround. The item is described on Connect, but here is the issue and the workaround: ISSUE: A Read more
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The upcoming book Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning that I wrote with Marco is its final stage. You can see the final update through the “ Rough Cuts ” initiative by O’Reilly. The book will be available in bookstores in the first Read more