19 books
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Microsoft Press — The third edition was the third complete rewrite. This time the goal was to expand the audience to newbies and include more visual explanations of abstract concepts. It also included the latest features, such as user-defined functions, visual calculations, and the new time-intelligence calendars, which didn't exist when the second edition went to print.
SQLBI Corp. — We spent years writing a book to cover everything you should know to optimize a DAX expression. The book assumes you know DAX, SQL, and DAX Studio, and focuses on reading query plans and rewriting formulas to make them faster.
SQLBI Corp. — The second edition of the DAX patterns is free on daxpatterns.com. Nevertheless, many people still bought the paper copy or the ebook, probably to support our effort!
Microsoft Press — Rebuilt around the free Power BI Desktop. Variables finally get the room they deserve. Tried to lower the technical skills required to read the book, but still not the first book you should read about DAX.
Tabular Modeling in SQL Server Analysis Services
Microsoft Press — The 2016 release changed Tabular models (including their serialization) enough that a new version of the book was definitely needed.
Analyzing Data with Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel
Microsoft Press — The data modeling book for users without a dimensional modeling background, typically Excel business users. A good data model keeps DAX complexity under control.
Introducing Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Press — Very high-level introduction to all the features available in Power BI one year after its initial release.
Microsoft Press — The first attempt at the whole DAX language in one volume, including what happens under the engine's hood and not only what to type. Written for a technical audience.
SQLBI Corp. — First printed form of what daxpatterns.com was already giving away, at that time only for Excel. The second edition replaced it five years later.
Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models
Packt Publishing — The second edition of the book for Analysis Services Multidimensional models. It includes several updates; it is also the last book on Multidimensional, because Tabular had been the new modeling type since 2012.
Microsoft Excel 2013: Building Data Models with PowerPivot
Microsoft Press — For the Excel user, not the developer. It draws the line between PowerPivot for self-service and Analysis Services for corporate BI, a debate that was still alive in 2012.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model
Microsoft Press — Written while Analysis Services Tabular was new and still had to be explained to people who knew the multidimensional model by heart.
Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Microsoft Press — The .NET 4 rewrite of the LINQ book, an important update after the previous version based on .NET 3.5.
Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning
Microsoft Press — My first book about DAX was a book about Power Pivot in Excel. The debut of the engine that ended up inside Power BI five years later.
Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
Packt Publishing — My first book on Analysis Services Multidimensional models running MDX. Not for beginners, full of best practices and advanced techniques.
Microsoft Press — Covers LINQ across both C# and Visual Basic, with the samples written twice to not discriminate between the two audiences, which were very different at that time.
Microsoft Press — LINQ is an extension to manipulate data in C# and Visual Basic.NET with a SQL-like syntax. Published while the feature was still in preview, for readers who had not seen it yet.
Mondadori Informatica — My book about .NET Common Language Runtime. Second and last book in Italian, as part of DevLeap before SQLBI existed.
Mondadori Informatica — My first book was in Italian: a practical guide to C# written while the language was still new.