Practical PowerPivot & DAX Formulas for Excel 2010

by Art Tennick

Overview

250 + ready-to-use, powerful DAX formulas

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

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071746861
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/05/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	18 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Art Tennick has worked in relational database design and SQL queries for more than 20 years and multidimensional database design, cubes, and DMX and MDX queries for 10 years. He has worked with several major corporations to implement BI solutions using Microsoft SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, and Excel 2010. Art is the author of several books and hundreds of articles for computer magazines in the U.S., UK, and Ireland. His web site is www.MrCube.net.

Table of Contents

Part I: PowerPivot Fundamentals
Chapter 1 PowerPivot - Quick Start
Chapter 2 PowerPivot - Overview
Chapter 3 PowerPivot: In-Depth
Chapter 4 DAX - Overview
Chapter 5 Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts - Overview
Part II: DAX Formulas - Extending PowerPivot
Chapter 6 Fundamental Functions - Filter, Logical, and Miscellaneous Functions
Chapter 7 Aggregate Functions - Statistical Functions and SUM()/SUMX() Functions
Chapter 8 Date & Time Functions 1/2 - Date and Time Basic Functions
Chapter 9 Date & Time Functions 2/2 - Date and Time Intelligence Functions
Chapter 10 Text Functions
Chapter 11 Math & Trig Functions
Chapter 12 A Few Ideas - PowerPivot and DAX Solutions
Part III: Appendices
Appendix A SQL Queries for PowerPivot
Appendix B MDX Queries for PowerPivot
Appendix C DMX Queries for PowerPivot