Learning PowerPivot and DAX
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This page contains links that will help you to learn how to use PowerPivot for Excel and new language DAX (Data Analysis eXpressions).
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PowerPivot for Excel setup
- Installing PowerPivot for Excel and list of known issues
- How to check what version of PowerPivot for Excel you have installed on your machine
- Guide on loading ContosoBI database into PowerPivot for Excel
PowerPivot for Excel interface
- How to create relationship between 2 tables in PowerPivot for Excel (not posted yet)
- How to create PowerPivot linked Excel table (not posted yet)
- How to load data into PowerPivot from oData source (not posted yet)
- My PowerPivot table was loaded from the SQL Server table that recently was changed. How can I apply these source table changes to PowerPivot table?
- How can I create Calendar Date/Time table for PowerPivot if I do not have any source for that?
- How can I create Fiscal Date/Time table for PowerPivot if I do not have any source for that?
- How do I hide "Grand Total" calculation for PowerPivot columns and/or rows?
- PowerPivot for Excel - tips for users (not posted yet)
Creating Calculated columns with DAX
- Create PowerPivot Calculated column from the same table columns (not posted yet)
- Create PowerPivot calcualted column using other related table columns (not posted yet)
Creating Calculated measures with DAX
- I have a field in the pivot that shows duration on some event in seconds. How can I create calculated measure using DAX that would convert numeric result (seconds) to string in the format hh:mm:ss?
- How can I create DAX calculation that counts distinct number of customers who had sales?
- How can I create DAX calculation that shows each customers sales ration to total sales?
- How can I create DAX calculation that shows Month To Date (MTD) sales values?
- How can I create DAX calculation that shows Previous Month To Date (Previous MTD) sales values?
- OpeningBalance
- ClosingBalance
- Tracking inventory with PowerPivot for Excel
PowerPivot for SharePoint
- How to save your PowerPivot workbook to SharePoint (not posted yet)
- Why I cannot save bigger PowrePivot workbook to SharePoint? (not posted yet)
General PowerPivot/DAX information
- List of PowerPivot DAX functions with description
- List of PowerPivot DAX functions (short)
- List of suggested datasets to test PowerPivot
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