Introducing Direct Query for Power BI datasets and Analysis Services | Alberto Ferrari

Speaker: Alberto Ferrari
Start Date: Thu, Oct 28th · 07:00 PM EEST
Language: English
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“New composite models” is the friendly name for “Direct Query for Power BI datasets and Analysis Services”, a feature that will have a huge impact in corporate and self-service BI in the coming years. In this session you see how this feature work, you learn several examples of adoption, and you have an overview of the challenging ahead for governance and development.

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Speakers:
Alberto Ferrari,
Senior consultant SQLBI

Alberto published several books about Analysis Services, Power BI, and Power Pivot. He is a Microsoft MVP and he earned the SSAS Maestro title, the highest level of certification on Microsoft Analysis Services technology.

Today, Alberto's main activities are in the delivery of DAX and data modeling workshops for Power BI and Analysis Services all around the world. Alberto offers consulting services on large and complex data warehouses to provide assessments and validation of project analysis or to perform specific problem-solving activities.

Alberto is a well-known speaker at many international conferences, like PASS Summit, Sqlbits, and Microsoft Ignite. He loves to be on stage both at large events and at smaller user groups meetings, exchanging ideas with other SQL and BI fans. When traveling for work, he likes to engage with local user groups to provide evening sessions about his favorite topics. Thus, you can easily meet Alberto by looking up local Power BI user groups during scheduled courses.

Outside of SQLBI, most of Alberto's personal time is spent practicing video games, in the vain hope of eventually beating his son.

[wayneedmondson]

Great presentation! Thanks for sharing this useful information. Thumbs up!!

[Saxiful]

Before watching this video, I had 100 questions about Direct Query. After watching the video I have no questions :) Very good video that explains Direct Query.