I and Alberto Ferrari will moderate the following Birds of a Feather session at TechEd North America 2013: CODE: BOF-ITP21 TITLE: How Far Can You Push Tabular? SPEAKER: A. Ferrari; M. Russo TIMESLOT: June 5, 2013 at 1:30 pm ROOM: 263 Abstract: Tabular is the new engine in SQL Server Analysis Services. It is an in-memory columnar ...

On April 23 I will present DAX in Action in London and Cardiff at SQLLunch event.How is it possible I will be in two places at the same time?This will be a remote presentation delivered in two locations, where you can have lunch while watching the session. What is this session about? This is the session description:Tabular is the new SSAS ...

I’ve been interviewed by Greg Low in SQL Down Under show 58, and this is *not* an April fool! We talked for one hour about Tabular, Multidimensional, Data Warehouse and just a little bit about music (you can discover which music genre I’m used to listen…). You can hear this interview from the SQL Down Under Show 58 page (it is an MP3 format) and ...

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 entire day is dedicated to learning DAX, starting from the syntax and going forward ...

Spring is coming and we published many dates of SSAS Tabular Workshops around Europe and online. Alberto Ferrari is coming to Aarhus, Denmark, for a 2-day SSAS Tabular Workshop on March 12-13, 2013 (you can see more info and register here). And Alberto will also deliver a free session in a community event on March 12 evening: the session is ...

I and Alberto have a busy agenda until the end of the month, but if you are based in Northern Europe there are many chance to meet one of us in the next couple of weeks! Belgium, 20 November 2012 – SQL Server Days 2012 with Marco Russo I will present two sessions in this conference, “Data Modeling for Tabular” and “Querying and Optimizing ...

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 be applied to any Time Intelligence function with a <dates> argument. The key ...

Yesterday I spent the longest day at this TechEd: we talked with many people at Community Night until 9pm and I have to say that just a few months after Analysis Services 2012 has been released, there are many people already using it. And the adoption of PowerPivot is starting to be quite large. Many new ideas and challenging coming from several ...

This is the second day at TechEd North America 2012 and yesterday I had many conversations about PowerPivot and SSAS Tabular. In the evening the book signing at O’Reilley booth has been a big success! I’m writing this post from the speaker’s room. It’s not crowded this morning because the keynote is going on and there are no people also in ...

As you might have read in the previous post, May is a busy month for all the editions of the SSAS Tabular Workshop. We’ll start with an online edition next week in a time slot that should be good for US and other countries in that time zones. Then there will be many other countries in our road show and Chris Webb will join Alberto in Brussels and ...