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SSAS Maestro Training in July 2012 #ssasmaestro #ssas

A few hours ago Chris Webb blogged about SSAS Maestro and I’d like to propagate the news, adding also some background info. SSAS Maestro is the premier certification on Analysis Services that selects the best experts in Analysis Services around the world.  Read more

Investigating on xVelocity (VertiPaq) column size

  In January I published an article about how to optimize high cardinality columns in VertiPaq . In the meantime, VertiPaq has been rebranded to xVelocity: the official name is now “xVelocity in-memory analytics engine (VertiPaq)” but using xVelocity  Read more

Why to use #Tabular in Analysis Services 2012 #ssas

A few months ago I gave a speech at SQLBits 9 comparing Vertipaq vs. OLAP (you can watch session recording here ), which I repeated a few times in other conferences and webcasts. The title was intentionally provocative but it contained an explanation  Read more

Create a #dax Measure in a Session in #BISM #Tabular

Thanks to Greg Galloway that pointed me out this is possible, in this post I want to show how to create a measure local to a session. This could be done in SQL Server Management Studio, even if it is probably not so useful for a Tabular model considering  Read more

Looking for Speakers at #PASS DW/BI Virtual Chapter

I recently joined Chris Webb , Jen Stirrup and Alberto Ferrari as PASS Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Virtual Chapter for Europe. We will increase the number of virtual sessions delivered in a comfortable European time zone and we are looking  Read more