Excel as a Database: How to Create a Data Model in Excel 2013
Jul 28,
2015
Many blogs, including some originating from our friends in the rainy Pacific Northwest, have referred to the “new” data models in Excel 2013. I’m not sure “new” is quite the right word. “Useful”, absolutely. “Interesting”, most definitely. But what we are really seeing here is not so much new as it is another step in […]
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Commodities Trade Workbook,
Economic Data,
Excel Data Models,
Excel Power Pivot,
Excel SQL,
Excel VBA,
Linked Tables,
Pivot Tables,
SQL,
VBA
How to Use SQL and the Excel Data Model to Repair Data
Jul 16,
2015
In the previous instalment on querying economic data with SQL we saw a problem not uncommon in the world of worksheets-as-database. Errors and inconsistencies that seem trivial when looking at the data themselves become annoying impediments to creating the pivot table we want. In many cases, the traditional tools of the SQL database are well […]
ADO,
Commodities Trade Workbook,
Economic Data,
Excel Data Models,
Excel Power Pivot,
Excel SQL,
Excel VBA,
Linked Tables,
Pivot Tables,
SQL,
VBA