A new component in SQL Server 2008 R2 gives users the autonomy to set up business intelligence functionality in Excel without taking control of the process away from IT. PowerPivot is Microsoft's new ...

If your are wondering how to handle large datasets and complex calculations in your spreadsheets. This is where MS Excel PowerPivot comes into play. PowerPivot is an advanced feature in Excel that ...

All Excel spreadsheets created from a query have the numbers stored as text - which makes the resulting spreadsheet a pain to work with. PostgreSQL 12.8 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4 ...

One problem I came up against recently is how to find out what has been selected on an Excel slicer connected to SSAS or a PowerPivot model. There are a number of blog posts showing solutions to this ...

Could the age of self-service BI (business intelligence) finally be near? And, if so, are organizations ready? For years, BI vendors have promised a way for managers to easily build their own reports ...

NOTE: This post was written before Data Explorer was renamed as Power Query. All of the content is still relevant to Power Query. One of the first questions I get asked after showing someone ...

Could the age of self-service BI (business intelligence) finally be near? And, if so, are organizations ready? For years, BI vendors have promised a way for managers to easily build their own reports ...