http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/excel-subtotals-when-querying-multidimensional-and-tabular-models/ Analysis Services, MDX, PowerPivot, DAX and anything BI-related Fri, 24 May 2013 17:15:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/excel-subtotals-when-querying-multidimensional-and-tabular-models/#comment-9077 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:24:36 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/excel-subtotals-when-querying-multidimensional-and-tabular-models/#comment-9077 [...] PivotTable is that it doesn’t always give you the best possible performance because of the way it generates its MDX, and because DAX queries are anyway faster than MDX queries for this kind of detail-level [...]

]]> http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/excel-subtotals-when-querying-multidimensional-and-tabular-models/#comment-6217 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:43:03 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/excel-subtotals-when-querying-multidimensional-and-tabular-models/#comment-6217 [...] In this series I want to balance out each dose of theory with some useful practical tips, and here’s the first practical tip: when you have a PivotTable with many hierarchies on rows or columns, you may find that it takes a long time to refresh and that using a named set instead may help improve performance. This is because of a design flaw in the way Excel generates the MDX for PivotTables which means that even when you opt not to display subtotals and grand totals, Excel still requests some of them in the queries it runs against your PowerPivot model. This issue has been blogged about in detail several times by Rui Quintino, Richard Lees and me: http://rquintino.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/excel-20072010-pivot-tables-getting-detailedgranular-table-reports-from-olap-in-seconds/ http://richardlees.blogspot.ch/2010/04/improving-excels-cube-performance.html http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/excel-subtotals-when-querying-multidimensional-and-tabular-m… [...]

]]> http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/excel-subtotals-when-querying-multidimensional-and-tabular-models/#comment-3683 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:33:16 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/excel-subtotals-when-querying-multidimensional-and-tabular-models/#comment-3683 [...] it feels a little bit weird to hop back on this thread, as so much as been said  before by Chris Webb, Richard Lees and several other bloggers (me [...]

]]> http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/excel-subtotals-when-querying-multidimensional-and-tabular-models/#comment-2412 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:04:04 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/excel-subtotals-when-querying-multidimensional-and-tabular-models/#comment-2412 I like this post. Thanks Chris.

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