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

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

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

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

Many people are looking for books about Analysis Services Tabular. Today there are two books available and they complement each other: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model by Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari and Chris Webb Applied  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

I and Alberto are in Amsterdam this week at TechEd Europe 2012 . If you are here at the conference, you can meet us here: Wed, Jun 27 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM – Room G106 DBI319 – BISM: Multidimensional vs. Tabular Wed, Jun 27 02:15 PM – 02:30 PM – Microsoft  Read more

I will deliver two sessions at the next PASS Summit 2012 : one is title Inside DAX Query Plans and the other is Near Real-Time Analytics with xVelocity (without DirectQuery) . These will be two sessions that require a lot of preparation and even if I  Read more

I hadn’t time yesterday to write a blog post before of the beginning of the day and I recover now that I’m already back to Europe. I spent many hours at the Microsoft booth meeting people who asked questions about Tabular, Power View and PowerPivot. I  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