March 2011
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
6h 57m
English
PowerPivot for Excel's features for loading and combining data can be dazzling. In certain cases, these very data loading features can also lead to slow-performing PowerPivot for Excel solutions.
In my opinion, slicers are the most visually unique element of PowerPivot. However, they can greatly impact the performance of report (PivotTable and PivotChart) updates. If you incur this type of performance issue in your PowerPivot solutions, here are a couple of suggestions for decreasing update runtimes.
First, endeavor to source slicers from dimension tables as opposed to fact tables in your solution. For example, consider an organization that works with a product set that contains 200 distinct ...