Practical PowerPivot & DAX Formulas for Excel 2010

Extract actionable BI using Excel 2010 PowerPivot and DAX language Featuring 200 ready-to-use DAX queries, Practical PowerPivot & DAX Queries for Excel 2010 shows Office and Excel power users how to take advantage of DAX (Data Analysis Expressions)—the new standard language for extracting BI within Excel. An entire section shows how to create tables, pivot tables, and PowerPivot tables in Excel. You can then progress to writing DAX queries and formulas to harness the power of BI.

This solutions-based guide contains more than 200 DAX queries that can be immediately applied across a wide variety of BI-related problems. It begins with fundamental principles and simple queries and rapidly progresses to complex and sophisticated queries. The book is structured as follows:

• Query: Introduction and description of query and its use
• Syntax: Complete DAX syntax
• Result: Screen shot showing the data returned in an Excel 2010 pivot table
• Analysis: Analysis of the results and tips for customization

Practical PowerPivot & DAX Queries for Excel 2010

• Includes 200+ ready-to-use, easily customizable DAX queries, all available for download
• Features a practical and hands-on approach with a minimum of difficult concepts and theory
• Explains how to visualize actionable BI
• Helps to dramatically improve analysis and decision-making skills

Complete coverage of Excel 2010 PowerPivot and DAX
PowerPivot Fundamentals; Instant Business Intelligence; PowerPivot: Overview; PowerPivot: Details; DAX: Overview - Calculated Columns and Measures; Visualization - Manipulating Pivot Tables and Charts; DAX Formulas - Extending PowerPivot; Fundamental Functions; Aggregate Functions; Date and Time Functions; Date and Time Intelligence Functions; Text Functions; Math Functions; After You Finish; How to Write SQL Queries for PowerPivot; How to Write MDX Queries for PowerPivot; How to Write DMX Queries for PowerPivot - Using SSAS Data Mining Data

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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Art Tennick has worked in relational database design and SQL queries for more than 20 years. He has been involved in multi-dimensional database design, cubes, data mining, DMX, and MDX for 10 years. Art is the author of Practical MDX Queries for Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008. His website is www.MrCube.net.