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Although it’s arguably not the most popular in the Kimball series, The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit contains a huge amount of vital information that’s focussed on the ETL side of data warehousing. In particular I’ve found the data quality screens design...
If you have an MDM requirement to consolidate multiple sources of Master Data together into a single golden record, then you have a few different ways to achieve this on the Microsoft platform. This blog post gives an overview of the different ways that...
When working with users who are browsing a cube using Excel 2010, a common requirement that I find is that the users want to create tabular or grid based reports. E.g. “I have a list of currencies, I want to display the currency code in an adjacent column...
I’ve been using both PowerPivot and Power View quite a bit recently and, in addition to the post I did a while back , have made a few further observations on getting the two to play nicely together. Building an Example PowerPivot Model For this post I...
Master Data Services in SQL Server Denali now includes an Excel add-in that allows MDS users to add and update data that exists within Master Data Services. For those of you that haven’t had a chance to download the latest CTP, this post gives an overview...
One question that I get asked from time to time is how to add a calculated field to an Excel Pivot Table that’s connected to an Analysis Services cube. I’ve been aware of a workaround to do this for a while, but a quick Bing :-) revealed that the common...
Although I didn't mention it, the inspiration for my last post was the excellent MDX Solutions 2nd Edition . Whilst flicking through the book a while back, I though it would be interesting to see how DAX and PowerPivot could handle the so called 'Common...
One of the often required calculations for users in reports is to be able to calculate a point-in-time closing balance, which is especially relevant when dealing with stock levels or financial data. In the Analysis Services world, at least in the Enterprise...
Following last week's release of the November CTP for SQL Server 2008 R2, the latest CTP for PowerPivot is now also released! The links for the downloads are: 32 Bit PowerPivot Download 64 Bit PowerPivot Download PowerPivot Main Download Page Included...
Interesting to see yesterday that XLCubed have released version 5 of their popular OLAP reporting tool. As I've mentioned before , I've always found XLCubed to be very powerful and easy to use, and therefore, in my opinion, it's definitely...
In the recent PPS Planning projects that I've been involved in, the challenges have often been around subjects such as business rules, hence the often recurring theme of this blog. Recently the tables were turned though, as I was told by a user that...
XLCubed Version 4 was recently released, adding support for increased data visualisation via MicroCharts, as well as enhanced web publishing. I've been using XLCubed since version 1 and have always found it both powerful and easy to use. All the standard...