DAX – The Greatest Formula in the World, Part Two
OK, if you recall from part one, we had a “year over year” time machine calculation going on, and it was built against a data set that lacked a “real” […]
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DAX – The Greatest Formula in the World, Part One
You remember the Great Precedence Project? Well, I have shelved it for now, for two reasons:
Using Query Editor to Create a Time Table
The first thing I ever do when I create a new PowerPivot workbook is create the date tables that I need.
SQL UNPIVOT Makes My Data Skinny
If you’re anything like me, you will have eagerly sucked data into PowerPivot, keen to get cracking with solving all of your reporting needs.
Comparing Access to PowerPivot
Here’s a question that comes up with increasing frequency: “PowerPivot seems kinda similar to Access in many ways, what’s the difference?” Why Does the Question Come Up? Some of you […]
Six Observations from the 2011 PASS Keynote
The PASS Summit tends to be one of Microsoft’s favorite venues for unveiling big news in the BI space. As you may recall, the 2010 Summit revealed some amazing things for the PowerPivot world.
DAX – Trended Moving Averages
I’ve always been a firm believer that moving averages probably give a better insight into trends within a business than a simple trend line associated to a set of values such as monthly sales
Mini-Post 3/4: DAX.xml Update for Notepad++ from Colin Banfield
(Rob’s note: Apologies to Colin, he put this up here in draft form weeks ago and even though I promised to flip it to live two weeks back, I forgot. So Colin… a thousand pardons. This is awesome!)
What if spreadsheets were invented today?
Here’s a story I find myself telling a lot these days: imagine a world in which all of today’s technology exists except spreadsheets
Profit & Loss (Part 2)–Compare and Analyse
In my recent post, Profit & Loss-The Art of the Cascading Subtotals, I went through a basic P&L layout with some relatively complex DAX measures to display and hide row headings as appropriate together with calculating accurate values.
Adding State Alpha Sort to the Sort By Slicer Trick
Sorting by State! How did I miss that? In a comment on Thursday’s post, Janet asked an excellent question: what about sorting by state name?
User-Friendly Report Sorting With Slicers!
Let’s say you are a monster Excel pro. You’re a pivot master. Nothing is beyond you – even the more complex features of Excel seem easy.