MSPTDA 13: Power Pivot Introduction #1: Relationships rather than VLOOKUP for PivotTable Report

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Relationships are great! Makes it all so simple to setup. Thank you Mike for another great video. Looking forward to the next ones in this series.

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Relationship makes Vlookup easy ❤️..many thanks to you 🙏

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[@jidduv]

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Lots more basics to come, jidduv!!!! Thank you for the support with your comment, Thumbs Up and Sub : )

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[@RobMichaels1]

Thanks Mike. I was about to use some VLOOKUP formulas in a large spreadsheet but your video reminded me of the better way to do it. Your videos are always helpful!

[@excelisfun]

I am so glad to hear that, Rob!!!! Also, when you see the next video, you will see that when we import external data for PivotTable Reports, we basically never want to keep the tables in Excel, but rather in the data model. Glad the video helps and thanks for your support : )

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[@mohitmanwani5298]

Thank you Mike for explaining relationships like a cakewalk!!

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You are welcome for the cakewalk, Mohit : )

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[@excelisfun]

You are welcome! Excel is amazing. Funny thing is, I posted this video 25 days ago, and my intent was to continue this series, right away, and then Excel released the New Excel Calculation Engine with the New Dynamic, Spilling Arrays, and I had to put this series on vacation for about a month while I made "breaking news" videos about that amazing new feature. I will be back posting videos for this in about a week! Thanks for your consistent, support, Wayne!!

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[@anisdadani8980]

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[@shoeshines2121]

Thank you for the introductory video - even just using the relationships is a leap forward from Standard Excel.

[@dontown1531]

I'm glad they put PowerPivot back in Office365 Personal!

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I am too! Microsoft was crazy to ever NOT include it in all versions!!!!! Thanks for your support, don town, with your comment, Sub and Thumbs Up : )

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Many many thanks!! 😄

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[@excelisfun]

That topic is later in this class. But here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZTah5KIgLSGa7c If you go to the full class, the Many to Many section has a few videos: kzbin.info/aero/PLrRPvpgDmw0ks5W7U5NmDCU2ydSnNZA_1

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Thank you brother!

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[@spilledgraphics]

At 01:47 that graphical representation of One to Many relationship is outstanding! Funny that its not portrayed in other courses. Mike, I am happy I have come back : )

[@spilledgraphics]

Ok, enlightening moment-os at: - 03:00 (explaing Power Pivot) - 05:09 (key benefit ! ) - 06:36 (nice call: the secret backdoor way to relationships ! ) - 06:54 (explaining on joining tables) - 08:14 (great spot on! on this detail) - 10:00 (a big clarification ! thanks!) - 10:56 (another great spot on! Mike) - 11:56 (a cool feature to know ! ) - 12:27 (nice call on implicit measures)

[@excelisfun]

Yes, many details and visuals are not in other videos or books. I try to tell a complete and fun and visually easy story : ) I am always happy when you stop by, Teammate!!!

[@excelisfun]

@@spilledgraphics , yes lots of cool details. Glad you like it all : ) : )

[@m.sz.120]

Thank you, Mike. An excellent addition to a strong series. (Yes, I know, I always say that. But what to do, when you just keep the niveau , Mike.) Power Pivot & Query are solid advanced material and set your mind to working with numbers and data.

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Thanks Mike. Power Pivot videos, here we go :) :)

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[@stevenls9781]

Great information, what if you have many to many relationships though. I have tried to use some joiner tables, but I cannot seem to be able to pull in fields from the main tables to perform sums on. I assumed I could use calculated columns to them use these new total fields in the pivot table but it all sort of just falls apart and errors out with each field. Do you have something that specifically refers to calculating values in a many to many relationship?

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Thanks for the video Mike!

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Great video as always!

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Info is really helpful.

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Glad it is helpful for you! Thanks for your support : )

[@Sbihis83]

Hello , As far as I understand , this feature replaces vlookup only when creating a pivot table. Can we use it to add a column to a given table ? 😊 Thanks

[@excelisfun]

Yes, if you wanted to pull all the one side items to the many side in a Calculated Column, in the Fact Table (many side) you would use the RELATED function.

[@filipsvakjaroski20]

Thank you Mike :)

[@excelisfun]

Great: now you are getting into the Power Pivot Relationships and and DAX and Data Model and Columnar Database videos = so much fun!

[@kevzgu]

One can use power pivot for the relationships, and also can use power query merge to do the same. When to use which and what are the pros and cons?

[@excelisfun]

When one flat table is okay, like in small table in Excel Worksheet to make a standard PivotTable, then Merge can be good. But when you are creating Data Models for small and big data and want to leverage the amazing power of the Data Model and DAX Formula innate filtering capabilities, then you 100% do not want Power Query Merge, you want Relationships. I am not sure how far you are through the MSPTDA class, but in later videos you will learn about the filtering of tables that happens in the Data Model with DAX formula, which exclusively relies of multiple tables and Relationships. This capability provides two benefits: it can more easily makes some calculations, like a daily average, but more importantly it works very fast on Big Data. Having the lookup or Dimension Table in the data model and using a column from that table, rather than a Merged column can have unparalleled advantages for Big Data and some specific calculations. However, later in the class in the Data Modeling section, we do see that Power Query Merge can be used in pre-steps of the Data Modeling process to transform complex data into the right form before we load the data to the Data Model and Build Relationships. So as always, the answer sort of depends : )

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You are welcome for the relationship fun, Teammate!

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Excellent video.

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Thanks mike girvin excelbrain :-)

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You are welcome, Mohamed!!! Thank you for your consistent support : )

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Unfortunately I have problems with downalding excel files, is there any problem with the website the files on which te files are? Does anyone have the same problem?

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Another great video!!

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[@TheTekelp]

Thanks a lot for all your help Mike. So far I could use Version 2010 to do most of the HW. I don't see Relationships in the Data tools, finding it hard to do this HW in 2010. Any thoughts? Once again thank you for all your help and support.

[@excelisfun]

Your version does not have many of the necessary tools. Sorry. THE only version to have moving forward in history is; Office 365. Get it as soon as possible because the extra $ you spend are well worth it : )

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[@superfreiheit1]

Is it better to make relationships with power query or with power pivot data model, if you have big data?

[@excelisfun]

Relationships can only be created in the Data Model. If you are in Power Query the Merge feature could be used, but then you would have a single flat table.

[@JonathanExcels]

I am finally getting around to investigating Power Pivot. Great video as always. I will watch the full series. The question in my head right now is why would I use Power Pivot instead of using PowerQuery? ok, if I had million(s) of rows then a normal PT wouldn't work. But I also don't see how power pivot can have the equivalent of multiple criteria vlookup. I can do that in PQ. Sure, some of the aggregations in PowerPivot are better (e.g., count distinct) than a normal pivot, but again, I can get a distinct list in PQ. I want to use this tool, I just don't have the use case in my head right now.

[@excelisfun]

There are two main reasons to use Power Pivot: 1) if you have millions of rows, even 100s of millions of rows, no other tool can deal with it as efficiently as Power Pivot or Power BI Desktop and the Data Model. The main reason in the engine behind the Data Model (talked about in the next video a lot) deals with all the stored unique lists and can filter the huge Fact Tables table down to much smaller sizes before it ever makes a calculation. Excel Worksheet Formulas and Power Query do not have that ability. They can not make the table smaller before making a calculation, each tool must iterate over all the rows and can therefore be significantly, to the point of slowing everything down to a painful level, slower. 2) There are some calculations that Standard PivotTables have a hard time with, like daily average sales or unique counts, that DAX formulas can make more easily. Keep watching, and you can see this. The other thing is, if you never really have Big Data and calculations in the Worksheet and a PivotTable are sufficient, no need to jump over to DAX. One other note (also as you will see later in this class) Power BI can make some Shareable Interactive Dashboards much, much more efficiently than Excel.

[@JonathanExcels]

ExcelIsFun thank you very much for taking the time to answer. I will watch the rest of the series. The very first time I went to use the data model I needed to join two tables based upon TWO fields and I could not see how to do that so I gave up. I want this tool in my arsenal though!

[@excelisfun]

@@JonathanExcels You would have to create a calculated column and join the two keys. Then make the relationship.

[@celia5132]

@@excelisfun hahaha this is the charm of reading comments! I just found what I' ve been looking for for the past 1 week! Thank you!

[@celia5132]

@@JonathanExcels I really want to thank you for asking the question too!

[@rrrprogram8667]

Awesomee..... So we r soon hitting the DAX....love to follow every bit of it.. Lately gil raviv book on power query is out... Have u seen that mike....

[@excelisfun]

I have not seen the book. But I just went to amazon after you mentioned it, and tried to order, but it says it is not out yet... I can't wait for the DAX too, RRR!!!!! The video making is slow right now because I have had family obligations... So I am just as excited as you about the up and coming DAX videos : )

[@excelisfun]

You said you had a slow iterating DAX formula is a comment a few days ago and I replied and ask what sort of DAX Formula you had, but I never heard back from you. I am curious what your formula is ?

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Awesome Mike !!!!!!

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Glad it was awesome for you, Chris! Thanks for your support : )

[@pittedmetal]

Thank you. :)

[@Sbihis83]

How do you explain that with this feature to file size drops ?

[@GeertDelmulle]

Nice beginning to PP, Mike. We just *know* this is gonna be great... On a side note: are you aware of the brand spanking new Excel functions called “Dynamic Array” functions that use the ‘spill’ feature? That really looks awesome!...

[@excelisfun]

Glad it is nice - it has been a few weeks since I made a video because of family obligations, and it may be slow for a while, but I am excited about making Power Pivot and DAX videos! Yes, I am aware of the new Dynamic Array formulas, it just has been hard to get any work done. I can't wait to make videos on that topic too : )

[@GeertDelmulle]

ExcelIsFun don’t worry, Mike, family matters come first, video making comes after that. The quality is so good - we’ll be waiting patiently. Take care!

[@excelisfun]

Thanks, Teammate!!!!

[@davebowman5392]

Thanks Mike

[@excelisfun]

You are welcome, Dave! More Power Pivot to come : )

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Wonderful vedio..

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Thank you sir

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[@mohamedchakroun4973]

Quick Refresh :-)

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[@stevennye5075]

very good

[@excelisfun]

Glad it is good for you, Steven! Thanks for your support : )

[@MarvTigre]

I have Office 365 (Up-to-date, afaik) and still have different icons for Data Model Pivot Tables...

[@excelisfun]

Yes, it is just crazy how many different version there are these days... I guess we just have to get used to the differences : )

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Thanks for sharing. Can i use your data for my Video, please?

[@excelisfun]

You are welcome! Thanks for your support with your comment, Thumbs Up and Sub : ) Yes, you can use the data, but be sure to say that you got it from the excelisfun channel. Also, I just Subbed to your channel : )

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@@excelisfun yes, thank you

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Thanks

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Nice

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nice

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Glad it is nice for you, Abdul!!!

[@promisegodbold2936]

Hello Mike, the link for the file isn't going through.

[@excelisfun]

The links seem to be working. Can you please check again and report back to me what is happening? Also, which file is it that is not working? I tried them all and they seem to be working.

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