Topic: Tabular
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Next week I and Alberto Ferrari will be in Seattle at PASS Summit 2012 . You can meet us at our sessions, at a book signing and hopefully watching some other session during the conference. Here are our appointments: Thursday, November 08, 2012, 10:15 Read more
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I recently published a set of rules for DAX code formatting . The following is an example of what I obtain: CALCULATE ( SUMX ( Orders, Orders[Amount] ), FILTER ( ALL ( Customers ), CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS ( Sales ), ALL ( Calendar[Date] ) ) > 42 + 8 Read more
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Recently I had to write a DAX formula containing a LASTDATE within the logical condition of a FILTER: I found that its behavior was not the one I expected and I further investigated. At the end, I wrote my findings in this article on SQLBI , which can Read more
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Short update about community events in Europe where I will speak. On October 11 I will present DAX in Action in Köln - all details in the PASS local chapter here: http://www.sqlpass.de/Regionen/Deutschland/K%C3%B6lnBonnD%C3%BCsseldorf.aspx I will be speaking Read more
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I recently came in a problem trying to improve the parallelism of Tabular processing. As you know, multiple tables can be processed in parallel, whereas the processing of several partitions within the same table cannot be parallelized. When you perform Read more
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If you started using DAX as a query language, you might have encountered some performance issues by using SUMMARIZE. The problem is related to the calculation you put in the SUMMARIZE, by adding what are called extension columns , which compute their Read more
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After many conferences and travels, this summer I had some time to write and prepare new sessions for the next wave of conferences. In reality I am just doing that, even if I already restarted traveling for consulting and training. So expect new content Read more
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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
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I and Alberto started a collaboration with Rafal Lukawiecki and we will publish video tutorial on the Project Botticelli web site. The first video is already available: DAX in Action shows you how the power of DAX in PowerPivot solving a common pattern Read more
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Are you waiting for a usable and interactive DAX editor? Are you tired of using the MDX editor provided by SSMS as a temporary solution to write and execute a DAX query? The wait is over! DAX Studio is a free Excel add-in that enables you to write a DAX Read more