UPDATE: This blog post is still good for learning DAX principles, but a better description of many-to-many patterns is available on The Many-to-Many Revolution whitepaper that is available here: http://www.sqlbi.com/articles/many2many/ – please download  Read more

In the last few days Alberto wrote two very interesting posts: Remote Execution of SSIS Packages – this is something that many many people asked me since 2005. Now there is the complete code with the solution to this issue. Considering that SSIS 2008  Read more

During a conversation I expressed the idea of making a DSLs to model cubes by leveraging the “Oslo” platform – my needs was having a human readable source file, easy to compare if you have two versions of the same entity (cube, dimension, or something  Read more

I’ve been so busy in the last weeks that I wasn’t able to blog about PASS Summit 2009, so here’s a short recap. I and Alberto presented the SQLBI Methodology in a 75 minutes slot. The room was full, there were about 200 people and no sits available. We  Read more

The project codenamed Gemini has an official name now: PowerPivot . The complete name should be “PowerPivot for Excel 2010”, but PowerPivot is simpler. I didn’t like that name yesterday, but today it seems better. Microsoft announced this name at the  Read more

A few months ago I wrote about a possible bug using both DirectSlice and MeasureExpression . A few days ago, Edward Melomed answered that the behavior we observed was not a bug but by design: you can read the complete answer on Connect . The key point  Read more

This is the type of blog posts you write after you spent hours on a stupid issue and you want to remind what’s happened. And may be it will help someone else in the future. Scenario: you have a MOSS 2007 with SSRS 2008 in SharePoint integrated mode. You  Read more

I already talked about the Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services book I wrote with Chris and Alberto . We found several posts around the blogosphere and I’d like to keep track of them – I’ll try to update this post whenever  Read more

In these days, I’m starting to use Gemini and I’m discussing about it in dedicated CTP newsgroups. I recently wrote a message that I’d like to share here, but not before some considerations. First of all, like Chris said , Gemini is less than a threat  Read more

It is finally available the SSAS 2008 book I wrote with Chris Webb and Alberto Ferrari : Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services . The book is also available on Amazon . You can also read a sample chapter for free. We  Read more