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Calculating Previous Year Marketing Calendar Values with DAX
UPDATE (9/27/2010): watch out for the mystery 53 week that occurs every 5 years or so. formula does not account for this at all and will fail eventually. UPDATE (10/9/2010): I have an updated post...
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Where did my Excel PowerPivot tab go? Follow-up
Back in June I did a post called Where did my PowerPivot Excel 2010 tab go? and I talked about being impatient waiting for Excel to startup. The reason that it takes longer now is that I have to wait...
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Round 2: Calculating Previous Year Marketing Calendar Values with DAX
So a couple of weeks back I did the posting Calculating Previous Year Marketing Calendar Values with DAX where I talked about a solution for getting at previous (last) year values in DAX with Marketing...
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New PowerPivot & Azure DataMarket Experience
I finally got around to installing the latest version of the PowerPivot application. The new build number is 10.50.1747.0 (previous RTM build was 10.50.1600.1). Here is my install experience while...
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Using PowerPivot with PerformancePoint Services (PPS) 2010
UPDATE (6/20/2011): Modified table layout of step-by-step walkthrough to be two columns instead of three. Added a downloaded PDF file as well. UPDATE (2/24/2012): I have a blog for using PowerPivot...
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Calculating Cumulative Values in Microsoft BI Tools
In working on a business intelligence project a common situation you will find yourself in is having to come up with a cumulative value (running value) calculation. The challenge that you will find is...
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MN Microsoft BI User Group 2011 Q1 Follow up
Last week was the first meeting of the year for our Minnesota Microsoft BI User Group. The topic for the whole evening was Analysis Services including talks at getting started with SSAS (UDM) project,...
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Video: Leveraging PowerPivot Demonstration
I finally got around to recording the presentation. I only did the demo to create the screenshot application I included in the presentation, I didn’t include the portions where I demo exploring the...
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Video: PowerPivot Denali CTP3 New Features
I put together a video demonstration as a follow up to last week’s Minnesota Microsoft BI User Group Q3 meeting. In this video I highlight some of the key enhancements and additions that have been...
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PASSMN October Monthly Meeting Follow Up
Well another month is coming to an end and this past week I did a presentation on “An Introduction to BI Semantic Model & Delivering Self-Service Reporting with Power View (Crescent)”. So the...
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Using Database Images in Tabular BI Semantic Models with Power View
Now that the SQL Server 2012 RC0 release is out I wanted to do a follow up posting to my Using Images in Tabular BI Semantic Models with Crescent (now officially known as Power View). With this...
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Using PerformancePoint Services (PPS) with PowerPivot SQL Server 2012 RC0
Last year I did a posting on Using PowerPivot with PerformancePoint Services (PPS) 2010. I thought it would be a good idea to do an updated posting with the new release of PowerPivot that will be...
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Upgrade PowerPivot SharePoint from SQL 2012 RC0 to RTM
So last week I was doing a presentation on Self-Service BI with SQL Server 2012 at the TechFuse MN technical conference and I realized that my demo virtual machine was still running SQL Server 2012...
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Excel PowerPivot SQL 2012 vs. Excel 2013 Performance Demo
I just wanted to do a blog post to demonstrate a performance situation I ran into last week. I had created a PowerPivot model in Excel 2013 and it performed very well (quite the understatement,...
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Visualizing Data with Power View: Pan-Geo goes PowerPivot
Back in June we released our book on Power View, Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View. Not only does the book contain great information about creating reports with Power View, but it also...
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Book Review: DAX FORMULAS for PowerPivot: The Excel Pro’s Guide to Mastering DAX
This week I got the opportunity to read a new book out on the market by Rob Collie (PowerPivotPro) – “DAX FORMULAS for PowerPivot: The Excel Pro’s Guide to Mastering DAX”. I have to admit that once I...
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Round 2: Calculating Previous Year Marketing Calendar Values with DAX
So a couple of weeks back I did the posting Calculating Previous Year Marketing Calendar Values with DAX where I talked about a solution for getting at previous (last) year values in DAX with Marketing...
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New PowerPivot & Azure DataMarket Experience
I finally got around to installing the latest version of the PowerPivot application. The new build number is 10.50.1747.0 (previous RTM build was 10.50.1600.1). Here is my install experience while...
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Using PowerPivot with PerformancePoint Services (PPS) 2010
[tweetmeme source=”denglishbi” only_single=”false”] UPDATE (6/20/2011): Modified table layout of step-by-step walkthrough to be two columns instead of three. Added a downloaded PDF file as well....
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Calculating Cumulative Values in Microsoft BI Tools
In working on a business intelligence project a common situation you will find yourself in is having to come up with a cumulative value (running value) calculation. The challenge that you will find is...
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