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Bug in PowerPivot 2012 for Excel 2010
I spotted what I firmly believe to be a bug in PowerPivot. If you already met this problem and/or can reproduce this issue, please support this ticket on MS Connect. An MS employee might – someday ,...
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Equivalent of VLOOKUP in DAX–Part I
One frequent DAX requirement is to write a formula that behaves like the VLOOKUP function in Excel. Gehrard Brueckl recently blogged about how to map a date to a fiscal period, when fiscal periods are...
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Equivalent of VLOOKUP in DAX – Part II – using TOPN
In my previous entry, I presented the LOOKUPVALUE function. In this article, I will explain how you can use the TOPN function to mimic the behavior of VLOOKUP when doing “approximate” searches. Ken...
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Microsoft Data Explorer–a review
As you are probably aware, Microsoft released a Preview version of the Data Explorer add-In. It is currently available for Excel 2010 and Excel 2013. Hopefully, this will still be true for the release...
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Using a self-signed SSL certificate with SQL Server
Learning to configure SQL Server to use a self-signed SSL certificate was not really part of my training plan. However, Data Explorer required SSL encryption to connect to SQL Server. On the same day I...
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Inconsistent drillthrough behavior in Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular
When you define more than one relationship between two tables, drillthroughs may return unexpected results. Get the file! The problem If two or more relationships exist between two tables, knowing...
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