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DAX Query Tables in Excel 2010

I was helping a participant at http://powerpivotforum.com.au with a problem. Long story short, she needed to return a table to Excel from a data model - not a Pivot Table. This concept can be a bit strange at first - let me explain. Tables - Not Pivot Tables A Pivot Table is a tool that aggregates data and allows you to slice and dice to get different totals and sub totals of that data. This is great when your tables are full of numbers and you want to aggregate those numbers. But consider the following scenario. What if you want to return a table that lists out all the names and addresses of customers that have purchased more than $2,000 in products from your company? Well you could set up a pivot table like this.

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Tags: excel, dax, tabular

 

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