Practical PowerPivot & DAX Formulas for Excel 2010
- 4h 40m
- Art Tennick
- McGraw-Hill/Osborne
- 2011
Develop effective business intelligence (BI) solutions and drive faster, better decision making across your enterprise with help from an experienced database consultant and trainer. Through clear explanations, screenshots, and examples, Practical PowerPivot & DAX Formulas for Excel 2010 shows you how to extract actionable insights from vast amounts of corporate data. More than 250 downloadable DAX formulas plus valuable appendixes covering SQL, MDX, and DMX query design are included in this hands-on guide.
- Build pivot tables and charts with PowerPivot for Excel
- Import information from Access, Excel, data feeds, SQL Server, and other sources
- Organize and format BI reports using the PowerPivot Field List
- Write DAX formulas that filter, sort, average, and denormalize data
- Construct complex DAX formulas from statistical, math, and date functions
- Compare current and past performance using date and time intelligence
- Handle non-additive numbers, non-numeric values, and running totals
- Develop complete self-service and sharable BI solutions in a few minutes
About the Author
Art Tennick (Brighton, U.K.) has worked in relational database design, SQL queries, and spreadsheets for over 20 years. He has been involved in pivot tables, multidimensional database design, cubes, data mining, and DMX and MDX queries for 10 years. Based in the United Kingdom, he has been a software consultant, trainer, and writer for some 25 years. Recently, he has worked with several major retail and banking corporations to implement BI solutions using Microsoft SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, PowerPivot, DAX, and Excel 2010. This is his twentieth book and he has also written over 300 articles for computer magazines in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
In this Book
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PowerPivot: Quick Start
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PowerPivot: Overview
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PowerPivot: In-Depth
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DAX: Overview
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Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts: Overview
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Fundamental Functions: Filter, Logical, and Miscellaneous Functions
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Aggregate Functions: Statistical Functions and SUM()/SUMX() Functions
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Date & Time Functions 1/2: Basic Functions
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Date & Time Functions 2/2: Time Intelligence Functions
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Text Functions
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Math & Trig Functions
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A Few Ideas: PowerPivot and DAX Solutions
