Topic: DAX
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Alberto Ferrari published an interesting blog post regarding how to write particular calculations over a parent-child hierarchy in PowerPivot Denali (and in BISM Tabular, of course). One case is the Sum of Leaves (summing only the leaves of a parent-child Read more
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The Analysis Services team just posted a blog entry with a few useful links to jumpstart your experience with Tabular project in Analysis Services "Denali". In these early days I read several messages asking for clarification about the names and acronyms Read more
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I and Alberto Ferrari will present a DAX Deep Dive training day at SQLBits 9 in Liverpool, on September 29th. The conference will continue on September 30th and October 1st. Registrations are not yet open, but you should definitely save the date for SQLBits! Read more
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Surfing on the web, here , I came into this intriguing question: How do we ask something like "Show me how many customers have an iPad but don't have a book?" We are speaking about a sales analysis where the canonical entities are Customers, Products Read more
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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
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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
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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
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Chris Webb posted a wonderful solution to the Last “ever” non empty calculation in MDX . I never thought to this solution and it is really a nice approach. I think that DAX might be faster in this scenario – a similar calculation has been shown in this Read more
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Last week Alberto published an interesting post about Counting Products in the Current Status with PowerPivot . Starting from a question raised from a reader, Alberto described how to solve a common issue (let me know the “current status” of each item Read more
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The early bird discount for the PowerPivot Workshop in Dublin will expire today, Friday 11 March. There is also an upcoming workshop in Copenhagen (March 21-22, 2011) and a PowerPivot workshop in Zurich on April 4-5, 2011. I and Alberto are preparing Read more