If you think PowerPivot and Tabular are good tools but sometime the design tools are not fast/complete/flexible enough, please consider voting this suggestion on Connect to request a textual representation Tabular or PowerPivot Data Models . This is the  Read more

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I and Alberto are starting to travel again, delivering SSAS Tabular Workshop and other free community events around Europe. This is the updated list of our next dates, including community events: Online – SSAS Tabular  Read more

I and Alberto Ferrari will speak at SQLBits XI (Nottingham, UK – May 2-4, 2013) and there are many good reasons to join us there, especially if you are interested to DAX! Here are our sessions: Thursday, 02 May 2013 – Training Day - From 0 to DAX The  Read more

Oct 1, 2012

Usage of dates argument in a row context

Several Time Intelligence functions in DAX use a <dates> argument, which has a special behavior because it can be expressed by using both a column reference syntax, a table expression or a Boolean expression.  Read more

During the last months I and Alberto worked in several projects using Analysis Services Tabular and we had to face real world issues, such as complex queries, large data volume, frequent data updates and so on. Sometime we faced the challenge of comparing  Read more

It has been a long wait, but finally our book about Analysis Services Tabular is available! Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model Amazon is already shipping it in US and it should be available soon also in Europe. However,  Read more

In June I participated to two TechEd editions ( North America and Europe ). I and Alberto delivered a Pre Conference and two sessions about Tabular. Both conferences provides recorded sessions freely available on Channel 9 so that you can compare which  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

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