Alberto Ferrari wrote an interesting post about a “different approach” in creating a ranking measure with PowerPivot . If you know DAX or you read our book , you will find that a DAX expression can solve the issue. However, such a formula is more complex  Read more

I have a friend (Sandro Rizzetto) that is also a photographer. A good one, but his job is in IT. For these reasons, after reading some posts of mines, he built a PivotViewer page to navigate its photo database. You can drilldown by category, date, lens,  Read more

As many of you probably already know, Donald Farmer left Microsoft to join QlikView . There are no doubts that Donald have been “the face of Microsoft BI” in the last years. This news has been initially perceived (me included, I admit) as a possible lack  Read more

After the successful first edition in Amsterdam of the PowerPivot Workshop in December, we are planning to repeat this 2-day intensive course on PowerPivot in several other European countries (we are also evaluating one or two possible dates in US – please  Read more

Microsoft Press just announced the printing of Microsoft Excel 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling , which is the third edition of the book written by Wayne L. Winston covering many data analysis and modeling techniques using a very clear problem-solution  Read more

Greg Galloway just released a new version of the Analysis Services Stored Procedure Project that includes a command to clear the File System Cache , including the standby cache. A technical discussion about how it works is available in this post on his  Read more

30 months after the LINQ book based on .NET 3.5, it is now available the Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 ! I wrote this book with Paolo Pialorsi and we updated existing content adding several chapters. This is the list of chapters:  Read more

This is a tool I would have mentioned in the Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services book I wrote last year. Unfortunately, the ResMon sample cube has been published just a few days before PASS Summit 2010 on CodePlex.  Read more

Yesterday Chris blogged about Varigence Vivid and Bonavista Dimensions . His post remembered me that I might share my comments about Vivid and I had to take a tour around Bonavista Dimensions, and here we are. Varigence Vivid is simply something that  Read more

There is less than one week (and only a few seats) available to register to the first PowerPivot Workshop that will be held in the Netherlands on December 1-2, 2010. I and Alberto spent the last days to refine the last slides and demo. Despite the workshop  Read more