ASF 016: Chris Webb interview

How did Chris Webb start working with SSAS? What is the future of SSAS On-Premise? How often the Direct Query has chance to being used in Power BI? What was the story of the beginnings of Chris' consultancy company? Check these things and much more in this episode. Chris Webb is independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services, MDX, Power Pivot, DAX, Power Query and Power BI in general. He has been blogging about Microsoft BI for over 10 years, and racked up over 1000 posts on his blog! Also he speaks at a number of conferences including SQLBits, the PASS Summit, the PASS BA Conference, SQL Saturdays and user groups. The author of "Power Query for Power BI and Excel", a co-author of few other books and also he co-authored the white paper "Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment" for Microsoft. This talk has taken place during Data Relay (formerly SQL Relay) conference in Birmingham (UK), on 10th October 2018 (Wednesday). Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski.