Tag: Power Pivot

  DAX Variables Well, DAX variables weren’t actually introduced with Excel 2016; they weren’t even introduced in 2016. Come to think of it, DAX variables aren’t even variables. Nevertheless, DAX variables are one of the most interesting and exciting recent additions to DAX. DAX variables were introduced to the Power Pivot engine in 2015, so […]

When Power Query was first introduced early in 2013 it was known as the Data Explorer. In some ways, Data Explorer was a better name. The primary job of Power Query is to enable Excel users to examine data, decide what values need to be imported into Excel, and then complete the import process. If […]

In the previous segment, we saw how to write DAX statements in Excel to query Power Pivot Data. In this segment, we will take a first look at the SUMMARIZE function. While the DAX queries discussed here could be executed in the Management Studio against an Analysis Services tabular mode database, here we will be […]