Its Back The Flattened Pivot Table – 2504

Laura from Nashville is looking for a way to make sure that all future pivot tables default to having No Subtotals. This *was* a feature in the PowerPivot Add-in back in Excel 2010, but then was removed. However, thanks to Pivot Table Defaults, you can force all future pivot tables into a flat pivot table that is ready for re-use.

The Tale of Two Caches

Want to optimize performance in Power BI? Of course, you do! In order to do that, you need to understand the two caches that are at play and how they affect your optimization efforts. Marco Russo helps explain!

DAX Studio 3
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Merging your data in a modern lakehouse data warehouse

Learn how you can move your data through different tiers using MERGE either with pySpark or SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics. Stijn Wynants walks you through the different steps.

Stijn Wynants
https://twitter.com/SQLStijn

pyspark.sql.SparkSession.createDataFrame
https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/reference/pyspark.sql/api/pyspark.sql.SparkSession.createDataFrame.html

Table deletes, updates, and merges
https://docs.delta.io/latest/delta-update.html#language-python

Delta Lake Documentation
https://docs.delta.io/latest/delta-intro.html

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Exploring Excel IMAGE Function – 2500

Display pictures on your Excel Dashboard using an Excel IMAGE formula. This episode has a deeper dive into the function and how to use it.

(0:00) Welcome
(0:24) Finding Image Address
(0:54) Building Image URL
(1:30) Using IMAGE function
(1:52) Hover for Pop-out Image
(2:30) Pivot Table
(2:55) Formula to Display All Images
(3:04) FILTER to convert to array
(3:15) IMAGE function
(3:20) TRANSPOSE for 2501 Bug
(3:35) WRAPROWS function
(3:45) Excel MVP by Country
(4:10) Caption under picture but how?
(5:19) Caching images #BUSY! error
(5:57) Insiders beta now

Keep Leading Zeroes When Opening CSV – 2502

D on YouTube asks: How do I stop Excel from removing leading zeros when opening a file?
Changing a column from general to text does not work for me, as the “0” has already been removed.
09805 becomes 9805, for example.
The files I’m opening does not make it clear that the zero has been removed.
I’m working in spreadsheets with 200k rows.
So stopping Excel from removing them in the first place, would be preferable

Four New Excel Features Debut!

Wyn’s book for shipment to USA:
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This video covers six exciting things:
1) The Show Changes feature which had been in Excel Online is now in Desktop Excel
2) Data Validation partial matching is working again
3) There is a new look for Excel Options
4) A new IMAGE function comes to Excel to display an image
5) Wyn Hopkin’s new Power BI for the Excel Analyst book… it drops on November 1, but I have 3 cases to ship now…. US only.
6) The 14 functions for text and array manipulation are coming to general availability.

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Slicers vs. Slicer Pane vs. Filter Pane! Which is faster?

You have different options in Power BI when it comes to slicers and filters. Just put the slicer on the report, use a slicer panel or have them in the filter pane. But which one is faster??? Patrick explores a few scenarios to think about!

Should you hide the filter pane in Power BI?
https://greyskullanalytics.com/should-you-hide-the-filter-pane-in-power-bi/

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🔴 DAX Studio 3 is out! LIVE w/ Marco Russo (Aug 27, 2022)

Prioritizing questions around DAX Studio 3, optimization, performance, DAX, data modeling, processing, etc…

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Simulate Hierarchies with Field Parameters in Power BI

Struggling with field parameters and hierarchies in Power BI? They just don’t work! Patrick has an approach that looks to simulate hierarchies by using field parameters in this way.

Let report readers use field parameters to change visuals (preview)
https://docs.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/power-bi-field-parameters

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