I stopped writing book reviews on my blog a long time ago because, frankly, I knew most of the authors of the books I featured so it was hard to be impartial. That doesn’t mean I can’t plug my friends’ books in a totally biased way, though, in the same way that I plug my own books/courses/consultancy etc!
I’ve known Paul te Braak for several years now and he’s one of the best SSAS guys out there. “Microsoft Tabular Modeling Cookbook” is a great introduction to building models in Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular models, and also covers client-side interaction with Excel and Power View. As the name suggests it follows the cookbook format rather than the more verbose, traditional tech book style of, for example, the SSAS Tabular book that Marco, Alberto and I wrote. I like the cookbook format a lot – it gives you information in a concise, easy-to-follow way and doesn’t force you to read the whole book cover-to-cover. Paul has done a superb job of covering all of the important points without getting bogged down with unnecessary detail. Highly recommended.
