June 2010 - Posts

• Vizubi: the first competitor of PowerPivot

  A couple of weeks ago the first version of Vizubi has been released. It is an Excel AddIn with many of the features of PowerPivot, but also with a few important differences. I made some tests and in this post I give my first impression of the product. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:00 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 3 Comments Filed under: PowerPivot

• Hide the Date column whenever you define a Dates table in PowerPivot

  There are already several posts in the blogosphere about the need of using a separate Dates table in PowerPivot to make almost any type of analysis. An important step you should make whenever you have a Dates table (almost always, in theory!) is to hide Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:13 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments

• Microsoft BI Conference 2010 Recap & books promo

  Last week I’ve been at Microsoft BI Conference and I presented an interactive session about PowerPivot DAX Patterns. Unfortunately only the breakout session were recorded and available on TechEd Online . The room was full and there were probably many Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:57 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments