Preface
Marco Russo
On November 4, 2009, Alberto and I had dinner with many other Analysis Services experts from all around the world, including many people from the Microsoft development team. We were in Seattle for the PASS Summit 2009, a conference for SQL Server professionals, and because Redmond, Washington is very near to Seattle, events like this often give you a chance to meet people you know only through e-mail. At that time, PowerPivot had just become the official name for what we had been calling Gemini for the past year, and we were continuing to call it Gemini. That dinner was very pleasant; I admit we were very geeky conversationalists, but everyone was very interested in Analysis Services–related topics and there were no guests outside ...
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