Suggested reading

I came across some nice articles and blog posts this week I wanted to share:

• The (unintended) network effect of Excel by @PowerPivotPro
• Junior DBA interview questions by @SQLRockstar
• Comments and descriptions in DAX by @TechniTrain
• How far can you push tabular? by @MarcoRus
• The emergence of Silicon Valley (documentary) by @AlexanderNL (+Alexander Klöpping)

Hopefully you can get somehting useful (or funny) out of the articles!

You can also follow me on Twitter: @NickyvV

Microsoft TechEd Europe 2012

I'm proud to announce I am one of the already 2.5k+ attendees at the TechEd Europe in Amsterdam next month!

I allready put up my agenda at europe.msteched.com, to attend at least some of the sessions of the following speakers:

- Kasper de Jonge

- Marco Russo

- Alberto Ferrari

- Jen Stirrup

See you all at the TechEd!

SSAS BISM Tabular Workshop

On april 16 and 17 I attended the BISM Tabular workshop from Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari (from SQLBI.com with my colleague Bas Kroes. We were guests at Microsoft BV @ Schiphol, the facilities were excellent, although the temperature in the room was a bit too high these days.

BISM Tabular Workshop

It were 2 long days, also because on monday evening we attended the PASS Community event, co-hosted by ADA ICT, where Marco and Alberto talked about: Tabular or Multidimensional?

PASS Community event

I've been working with PowerPivot for Excel for almost a year now, but haven't done very much on SSAS, and nothing with Tabular (in regards to customers) yet, so I learned a lot in the workshop.

Specially the filter and row context in DAX was very good explained by them, it's still a hard topic, especially with 1-to-many and many-to-many relationships.
I can recommend the workshop to everyone who wants to know more on Tabular and SSAS 2012!