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Getting Started with PowerPivot for Excel
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
—Lao-tzu
When I began working in business intelligence almost 18 years ago, the overarching goal was to create a subject-oriented data store that could be used by an ordinary business worker without SQL skills to answer questions and confirm hypothesis. Great work was done by my teammates and I to move data from data storage structures designed for transaction capture into dimensional models designed from the start for processing analytical queries. The analytical data store, in the form of a data mart, data warehouse, or otherwise ...
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