Illustrated guide to Excel Services Chart Rendering
COMMON QUESTION: “Hey, will this chart render unchanged in Excel Services, or will it look different?” MY STOCK ANSWER: “Hmm, I forget, let’s try it out” I hate giving that […]
Tag: Educational Content
A few tips on maintainability
Eat This Not That, PowerPivot Edition! Just like normal Excel, PowerPivot requires little or no premeditation – you can just jump right in and build something quite impressive. But if […]
Two common PowerPivot error messages
Been meaning to post this for awhile now. Here are two error messages I see all the time now, about once per day: UPDATED: I’ve found a third message that […]
Welcome Query designers!
-Guest Post by the one and only Dany Hoter! We Excel geeks aren’t spoiled with fancy query builders. We have had MSQuery for the last what? 15 years? Suffice to […]
Calling a Stored procedure in PowerPivot
By Kasper de Jonge, crosspost from PowerPivotblog.nl While building a new PowerPivot workbook i wanted to use Time Intelligent functions. One of the golden rules of PowerPivot time intelligent functions is […]
The Superheroes of DAX, and derived measures
“Did someone say DAX?” I wanted to start today’s post with a quick thank-you to the guys who tirelessly answer my DAX questions. Marius Dumitru, Howie Dickerman, and Karen Aleksanyan. […]
Quick Data Prep Trick: Use a Flat Pivot!
Today I had a huge source table that looked like this: Store Month Payment Type Some Number A Jan Cash 10 A Jan Credit 12 A Jan Debit 13 A […]
Power BI and Power Pivot DAX: CALCULATE is a supercharged SUMIF
“No [doubt] she’ll freak. I’m just contemplating the =IF()’s…” -Marcellus Wallace, obvious master of the spreadsheet arts CALCULATE is a supercharged SUMIF I can’t believe I didn’t say this last […]
What is Power Pivot?
So what is Power Pivot? I think a lot of people arriving at this site for the first time already know quite a bit about what Power Pivot is, but […]