In June I participated to two TechEd editions ( North America and Europe ). I and Alberto delivered a Pre Conference and two sessions about Tabular. Both conferences provides recorded sessions freely available on Channel 9 so that you can compare which  Read more

I and Alberto are in Amsterdam this week at TechEd Europe 2012 . If you are here at the conference, you can meet us here: Wed, Jun 27 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM – Room G106 DBI319 – BISM: Multidimensional vs. Tabular Wed, Jun 27 02:15 PM – 02:30 PM – Microsoft  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 and even if I  Read more

I hadn’t time yesterday to write a blog post before of the beginning of the day and I recover now that I’m already back to Europe. I spent many hours at the Microsoft booth meeting people who asked questions about Tabular, Power View and PowerPivot. I  Read more

Yesterday I spent the longest day at this TechEd: we talked with many people at Community Night until 9pm and I have to say that just a few months after Analysis Services 2012 has been released, there are many people already using it. And the adoption  Read more

This is the second day at TechEd North America 2012 and yesterday I had many conversations about PowerPivot and SSAS Tabular. In the evening the book signing at O’Reilley booth has been a big success! I’m writing this post from the speaker’s room. It’s  Read more

Yesterday I and Alberto delivered the PreCon day about BISM Tabular in Analysis Services 2012. We received very good feedback and now I am looking forward to meet people that read our blogs and our books! Ping me on Twitter at @marcorus if you want to  Read more

We are still in the early days of DAX and even if I have been using it since 2 years ago, there is still a lot to learn on that. One of the topics that historically interests me (and many of the readers here, probably) is the many-to-many relationships  Read more

I tend to use twitter when I have to notify an interesting link or tool. But sometimes a blog post (even if short) is better, because allows me to easily find it on search engines (Bing/Google/whatever) months or years later. I know PInterest is growing  Read more

Registrations are now open for the SSAS Maestro course in July 2012, which will take place in Milan (Italy). I introduced this course in a previous blog post and I’m not going to repeat all the details here. I just want to highlight a few updates, the  Read more