Marco Russo's Blog posts of 2011

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SQLBits Training Day with SQLBI Methodology

You might already know that I and Alberto Ferrari will present the SQLBI Methodology in a Training Day at SQLBits 8 . What you might need to know is that registrations are very good and there are not so many seats available. I don’t know whether it will  Read more

Last week to register for PowerPivot Workshop in Frankfurt

Flash news about PowerPivot Workshop : this is the last week to register for the Frankfurt date (21-22 February 2011). We are going to announce the next dates in Europe in March/April 2011: Copenhagen (Denmark), Dublin (Ireland) and Zurich (Switzerland).  Read more

PowerPivot FILTER condition optimizations

In the comments of a recent post from Alberto Ferrari there was an interesting note about different performance related to the order of conditions in a FILTER call. I investigated about that and Jeffrey Wang has been so nice to give me some info about  Read more

Parameterize Charts using Excel Slicers in PowerPivot

One new nice feature of Excel 2010 is the Slicer. Usually, slicers are used to filter data in a PivotTable. But they might be also useful to parameterize an algorithm or a chart! We discussed this technique in our book , but Alberto Ferrari wrote a post  Read more

Stock Analysis and Moving Average with PowerPivot

One week ago Alberto Ferrari wrote a post about how to do working days calculation in PowerPivot . You might think this is necessary only for accounting department or something like that… but in reality the same techniques are really useful to implement  Read more

BonaVista Dimensions used as a report service

Recently I have seen a long demo of BonaVista Dimensions . It is a product that is able to create reports and, most important dashboards. You can use it also without SQL Server and Analysis Services, just by importing data in a local cube file that you  Read more

Training Center interested to PowerPivot Workshop

As you probably read so often in this blog, we are arranging a roadshow of out PowerPivot Workshop . If you are a trainer or works in a training center to select products to offer to your customer, you might be interested in delivering the same course  Read more

Working days calculation with PowerPivot

Whenever you have to calculate the distance between two dates, you can simply subtract two dates and DAX in PowerPivot will give you the answer. However, in case you want to calculate the difference in terms of working days you have to instruct your data  Read more