Guest Post – Greater Than/Less Than/Between Slicers
I get a reasonable number of questions in email each week, and rarely have time to respond to all of them. Last week though I received a question that I […]
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Less Columns, More Rows = More Speed!
“Stay close! Come together! Staggered columns! Staggered columns! I mean… less columns! More rows!” -General Maximus Speedicus Queryus A Long-Held Belief, Quantified For a long time now I have been […]
Guest Post: TOPN in PowerPivot V2
Well folks I haven’t had much time to play with the V2 Beta (aka CTP3) yet. A lot going on over the past week:
PowerPivot V2 CTP3!
CTP3 Adaptive = “Public Beta” What the heck is a CTP, you ask? Well it’s a “Community Technology Preview.”
Running Totals Without a Traditional Calendar Table
PowerPivot provides a host of great functions like DATESYTD, DATESMTD, DATESBETWEEN, etc. that are useful for calculating many things, including a running total. But with the exception of DATESBETWEEN,
DAX – Precedence Part 3: ALLEXCEPT vs. ALL w/ VALUES
This will be a quick one. I think.
In part two, we left off with the observation that VALUES() can “trump” ALL() even when VALUES() is applied to a column that is not on the pivot:
DAX – Precedence Project Part Two: VALUES()
OK, picking up from part one…
Let’s start with a simplified version of last post’s pivot – remove one of the row fields, and all of the measures but the base Total Sales measure:
DAX – The Great Precedence Project (Filter Rules for DAX)
“Wait a minute. There might be legal precedent. Of course. Land snatching. Let’s see, land, la-land…see snatch. snatch…snatch…ah! Haley vs. United states. Haley 7, United States nothing. You see, it can be done!
DAX – The Friendly Neighborhood Operators && and ||
David Hager’s guest post below reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to share for awhile. Here’s a feature of PowerPivot so tiny, so sensible, that I’ve had a very hard time internalizing that Excel lacks it. In fact, I think I’ve had to re-check Excel 3-4 times to confirm for myself that Excel doesn’t have it.
DAX – A/B Campaign Analysis with Start & End Date Slicers
“Because every good story has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
Awhile back I posted about promotional campaign analysis factoring in seasonal trends. Now let’s look at another flavor of campaign analysis: comparing results when a campaign is active versus when it was not. Sometimes this is referred to as “A/B Testing.
Guest Post: Nth Occurrence DAX Formula
David Hager is At It Again
A short two weeks after his truly creative Measure Catalog Macro post, David Hager is back with a heavyweight DAX post.
Are you making daiquiris or blenders?
A Lasting Metaphor Many years ago, I was designing a feature for Excel 2003. And the VP of our division of Office, a man named Richard McAniff, didn’t like the […]