This is one of the few non-technical posts of this blog. Just skip it if you want to quickly come back to 100% BI related topics. Last Saturday we run the SQL Saturday 454 in Turin . I was part of the organization, and actually I was one of the promoters  Read more

In the last two years, I and Alberto Ferrari delivered many courses about Power Pivot, SSAS Tabular, and DAX. We had DAX content in many of the courses, and this created some overlapping and the lack of a clear guidance for studying DAX, regardless of  Read more

During the last months I’ve seen an increasing adoption of Analysis Services Tabular (and I’m writing a longer article about a particular area of adoption which was probably not expected – more on that in a few weeks). This year at PASS Summit 2014 there  Read more

If you are attending TechEd North America in Houston this week, stop me and say hello! I am always happy to meet blog readers, and of course if you have question or topic to discuss, try to join me at the BI booth expo. I tried to put a list of where  Read more

Between May and July I and Alberto will be speaker at several conferences, and I think it could be useful to write a single blog post with a recap: PASS Business Analytics Conference 2014 - May 7-9, 2014 - San Jose, California Querying in DAX (Marco Russo)  Read more

I received the communication from the PASS Program Committee that none of my proposals have been accepted at PASS Summit 2013 . Probably this year there was too many proposals and I made a mistake not using all the possible proposals available per speaker.  Read more

If you are using Microsoft BI stack and you still didn’t start learning DAX, you should not wait any longer. One of the option you have is starting with one of our books , or you can also attend one of our workshop about Tabular or PowerPivot . But if  Read more

One month ago I wrote about my sessions at PASS Business Analytics Conference 2013, in Chicago, IL on April 10-12, 2013. If you still have not registered, you can save $200 by using the code BAC228BL and you should hurry up, because there is another discount  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

Spring is a conferences’ season and the upcoming one is no exception. I will be speaking at PASS Business Analytics Conference 2013, which will be the first event this year, so I’d like to spend a few words about my sessions. PASS Business Analytics Conference  Read more