My colleague and friend Roberto Brunetti wrote Windows Azure Step by Step Microsoft Press. It is a good introductive book about programming on Windows Azure. He is a well known speaker, author and trainer in Italy and he finally used its great skills  Read more

Microsoft released the SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Operations Guide , a white paper that describes how operations engineers can test, monitor, capacity plan, and troubleshoot Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP solutions in SQL Server  Read more

As Chris announced in his blog, some of the sessions from the SQLBits 8 in Brighton are already available (for free!). Yesterday I watched more than half of my BISM Introduction session just to check that no NDA was broken. And, believe it or not, the  Read more

During TechEd 2011, Microsoft announced an important update to its BI roadmap . The reason why this is important is related to the previous announcement, which I discussed in November 2010 by including links to several sources and comments. At PASS Summit  Read more

In the last months I talked mostly about PowerPivot, but Analysis Services is still growing and a very good sign of that is the number of downloads of The Many-to-Many Revolution whitepaper, who has been published almost 5 years ago and recently surpassed  Read more

Next week I will be in Paris and Brussels for two editions of the PowerPivot Workshop . The evening after the first day of the workshop is always a good chance to meet people from local communities and I am happy there will be two community events, too!  Read more

Some weeks after my blog post about Bonavista Dimensions I’ve been able to look at a comprehensive demo of XLCubed , but since then I’ve been too busy to write about that (and in general to blog – I have several topics I will blog about as soon as the  Read more

Jeffrey Wang wrote a very detailed blog post about recursive calculations in MDX with Analysis Services. In these days I’m doing some comparison between DAX and MDX (well, between Vertipaq/PowerPivot and OLAP/SSAS engines) and I’m discovering that MDX  Read more

April has been a month full of conferences and May will be full of workshops! I’m also working on other things and I hope to be able to publish more technical content in my blog very soon! In the meantime, we just announced an edition of the PowerPivot  Read more

As I blogged last month , the spring is a season full of events and this is a reason why I’m not writing technical articles in these weeks. But I promise I’ll write again in a few weeks, there are a lot of interesting ideas that need to be written down.  Read more