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

As you might have read in the previous post, May is a busy month for all the editions of the SSAS Tabular Workshop . We’ll start with an online edition next week in a time slot that should be good for US and other countries in that time zones. Then there  Read more

After the first two editions of the SSAS Tabular Workshop , I and Alberto had some time to flush some of the pending activities. We published two articles: Clever Hierarchy Handling in DAX : DAX is not a hierarchy-friendly language, especially if you  Read more

We finally have the registration website for the community event about Tabular in Analysis Services in Amsterdam on April 16 evening that I introduced in my previous post – don’t miss it, the registration are open (and limited!) at: http://passnl-april2012.eventbrite.com/  Read more