Excel PivotTable Query Performance With Analysis Services, Power Pivot And Power BI (Revisited)

Back in 2016 I wrote the following blog post about changes to the way Excel 365 generated MDX queries for PivotTables connected to Analysis Services, Power Pivot/the Excel Data Model and Power BI datasets:

https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2016/07/08/excel-2016-pivottable-mdx-changes-lead-to-big-query-performance-gains/

I know it sounds boring and not something you need to worry about but trust me, this is important – these changes solved the vast majority of Excel PivotTable performance problems that I encountered when I was a consultant so you should read the above post before continuing.

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