UPDATE 2018-03-03: the Azure DataMarket is no longer supported by Microsoft, but if you need a Calendar table you can now use the DAX Date Template. Boyan Penev announced the availability of DateStream project on CodePlex: it is a data…  Read more

If you think PowerPivot and Tabular are good tools but sometime the design tools are not fast/complete/flexible enough, please consider voting this suggestion on Connect to request a textual representation Tabular or PowerPivot Data Models. This is the simplest way…  Read more

I recently read the blog post from James Serra Tabular model: Not ready for prime time? (read also the comments because there are discussions about a few points raised by James) and the following post from Christian Wade Multidimensional or…  Read more