Comments on: Import Filters in PowerPivot

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:39:43 +0000

The problem I see with the filters is that they only act on one table. Supposed you have a star schema with a fact table and some dimension tables, for example one of the dim tables is Dim_Customer. I want to do an analysis of just a subset of customers. It appears I would need to put filters on BOTH the Fact table and Dim_Customers table. Worse, the filter on the Fact table would need to specify the foreign key values for Dim_Customers. It appears power pivot will NOT use relationships such that you can put a filter on a related table, e.g. Dim_Customer, and have that cause the Fact table import to only import rows pertaining to the customer filter. So is it me, or does this render the Import Table Wizard and Row Filtering to be almost useless???

By: arcanecode

arcanecode — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:25:52 +0000

Thanks Simon. If you look to the upper left side of my blog, under the MVP Logo you’ll see a big orange button. Either that or the link below it will let you subscribe to my RSS feed provided by FeedBurner.

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By: Simon Slade

Simon Slade — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:51:47 +0000

Good post, do you have an RSS feed I can bookmark please?

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