Power Pivot (Exercise 01)

1. Start Excel 2010

2. Click on PowerPivot and then on PowerPivot Window
3. Click to Import Data from Database
4. Select the database and give Proper authentication to log in.
5. Select the List of Tables: select Product, Sales Order Header and Sales Order Detail Tables
6. Choose PivotTable option from ribbon
7. Now the difference is that we have 3 tables for analysis rather than 1 in normal Pivot table
8. Let us start with basic analysis:
9. Report Total amount sold online Versus the same total sold directly: Select OnlineOrderFlag
(True/False) from SalesOrderHeader and LineTotal from SalesOrderDetail. Note: value “-1”
stands for OnlineOrder and “0” stands for Direct Sales.
10. Report Total amount sold online Versus the same total sold directly w.r.t. color of the
product: Use Color from Product Table
11. Warning: The result of the above query will depend on whether the relationship between
two different tables in detected or not.
12. Report sum of quantity sold by filtering data on different measurement sizes; Online vs
Direct sales and further categorised as product colour wise for different sizes. Use fields like:
SizeUnitMeasure, Size, OnlineOrderFlag, Color, OrderQty.
13. Change the above report to Filter data on the basis of Size, and further categorised the same
w.r.t OnlineOrderFlag, Color for different sizes. Change value “-1” which stands for ONLINE
ORDER with value “Online Order” and “0” which stands for “Direct sales” with value
“INTERNAL ORDER” by adding suitable calculated fields named “OrderType” in existing Table
named as “SalesOrderHeader”. Add suitable formula with IF() function as written under:
IF([onlieOrderFlag]<>0,”Online Order”,”Internal Order”). Rename this calculated field as
“OrderType”.
14. Adding Measures: Implement a column that calculates the distinct count of Products sold.
Solution: Right Click on the PowerPivot Field List for PRODUCT Table and choose New
Measures. Add measure with name DistinctProducts and edit formula as
“=COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(Sales_SalesOrderDetails[ProductID]))” . After this prepare report
which shows Distinct Products sold with different Colour and categorise the same with
OrderType.

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