Topic: Tabular
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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
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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
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DAX offers a set of Time Intelligence functions that simplify writing DAX expressions such as YTD, YOY and other time-related calculations. However, these functions only works when some assumptions are valid: your periods should be “natural” months and Read more
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A common question I receive is about how to correctly size a server for an Analysis Services Tabular instance. I always answer that an analytical evaluation is partly an empiric process, because there are many variables involved and the simplest approach Read more
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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
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Are you working with SSAS Tabular? Are you an experienced PowerPivot user? In both cases, you should be aware that there is only one skill that is important for PowerPivot and SSAS Tabular, and it is the DAX language. I and Alberto have been using DAX Read more
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Apparently Excel does not offer a way to import data in Excel by using a DAX query on Analysis Services. The Data Connection Wizard seems to offers only the ability to create a PivotTable when you connect to Tabular, but not a Table (see the Table option Read more
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When you use Excel to connect to a Tabular database in Analysis Services, you get a PivotTable as a result. In this article, you learn how to import data in a table writing a DAX query than runs on Analysis… Read more
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This year is going to end, Maya failed their predictions and while this is bad for predictive industry, it’s also good for all of us! We’ve seen many news in Microsoft BI stack: Excel 2013 has been RTM’d – its General Availability is expected in early Read more
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The DATE function in DAX has this simple syntax: DATE( <year>, <month>, <day> ) If you are like me, you never read the BOL notes that says in a clear way that it supports dates beginning with March 1, 1900. In fact, I was wrongly assuming Read more