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Excel 2013, Power View, top 10, "long tail" and how DAX helps

Ok its been a while since I blogged an actual scenario here on PowerPivotPro but here is another one :) . Its that time at the end of the year and folks here at Microsoft are out enjoying their vacation so lots of meetings get cancelled, this gives me the opportunity to do one of the the things I love, helping users of our products get the solution they need and write some blog posts :) .

A few days ago I met a internal user who had 3 million rows of occurrences, products and dates in a SQL database and wanted to get some insights out of it, preferably in a highly visual output. We are fortunate here at Microsoft that we always get to play with the latest bits, so we have access to Excel 2013 that includes Power View.

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Tags: design, dax, tabular

 

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