Chat with Jeffrey Wang

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English - March 03, 2021 15:55 - 51 minutes - 41.1 MB
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Jeffrey Wang is a Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft. He leads the development of DAX (Data Analysis eXpressions) programming language and query processor with focus on in-memory database engine development. He is known as one of the inventors of the DAX language

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.

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