Chat with Jeffrey Wang

SSBI-PODCAST

Jeffrey Wang leads the development of DAX programming language at Microsoft.

Corrections

Jeffrey asked me to correct the following of his statements as follows:

At 11’55” → most other self-service BI tools are report centric.

At 25’ → the development of the Vertipaq Engine started first, followed, soon afterwards, by the development of the DAX Engine. The development of both engines then proceeded in parallel until the initial release of the tabular model.

You'll find the show notes on my blog.

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Welcome (00:00:23)

3. How does a day of the DAX engineering team look like? (00:00:59)

4. Why was the development of Direct Query over Analysis Services so important? (00:09:48)

5. Why was developing Direct Query over Analysis Services so hard? (00:14:23)

6. When was the idea of Tabular models come up? (00:22:14)

7. Have the VertiPaq and the DAX engine been developed side by side? (00:24:53)

8. Which requirements did you have for the new DAX language? (00:25:46)

9. How can you own the patents of the DAX language? (00:35:13)

10. How would the success of DAX look like, without the work of our Italien friends? (00:37:40)

11. Will we see you blogging again? (00:42:29)

12. What could be the next big project for the DAX engineering team? (00:44:25)

13. Thanks and goodbye (00:47:53)

14. Outro (00:50:43)