Resources


A collection of interesting and helpful resources:

PowerPivot  &  AS Tabular Resources:

http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/ (Chris Webb's blog)

http://www.sqlbi.com/ (Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari's site)

http://www.powerpivotblog.nl/ (Kasper de Jonge's blog)

http://mdxdax.blogspot.com/ (Jeffrey Wang's blog)

http://javierguillen.wordpress.com/ (Javier Guillen's blog)

http://www.sqljason.com/ (Jason Thomas' blog)

http://gbrueckl.wordpress.com/ (Gerhard Brueckl's blog)


http://christianwade.wordpress.com/ (Christian Wade's blog)

http://powerpivot-info.com/ (Vidas Matelis' aggregator site)


PowerPivot Books:

Webb, Russo & Ferrari's new AS Tabular book that has several chapters covering some advanced DAX

Russo & Ferrari's PowerPivot v1 book (still alot of good material in there)
- and they have an Excel2013modeling book


Microsoft BI Resources:
Melissa Coates BI blog
Jessica Moss blog
Jamie Thomson SSIS Junkie blog
Boyan Penev blog
Dan English blog
Devin Knight blog
Mark Vaillancourt blog
Vincent Rainardi blog
Ron Pihlgren blog
Julie Koesmarno (MsSQLGirl) blog
Jen Stirrup blog
Darren Gosbell blog
Hilmar Buchta blog
Jen Underwood site
Vidas Matelis SSAS-info site

General BI Resources and Thought-leaders:
Wayne Eckerson's site
Boris Evelson's Forrester blog
B-Eye Network site
Information Management (formerly DM Review)
TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute)


Videos / Session Recordings:
TechEd
SQL Bits
SQLPASS Event Recordings

Data Warehousing Books:
Kimball Group
- The Data Warehouse Toolkit
- The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
- The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit
- The Kimball Group Reader
- The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit

Ralph Hughes
- Agile Data Warehousing

Data Visualization and Dashboards:
Wayne Eckerson
- Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business

Stephen Few
- Information Dashboard Design