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Excel’s ability to run pivot tables against an OLAP cube in Analysis Services is a truly wondrous beast. The ease of use; volumes of data; the filtering; all of these provide a rich environment for users to easily inspect their data and get real information out. Add to this that Microsoft seem to believe that pivot tables are a winner and keep improving it, access to cubes and slicers being some of the latest significant changes, I can see no reason for all serious Excel users not to get to grips with this technology. In addition to all of this … Continue reading Cracking The Code

I recently wrote about a database tool that I have built to facilitate adding stored procedures to databases, SP Builder.   XL-Dennis made a couple of comments, one of which was with regards to the medium used for the script file. He talked about XML files, and whilst I had used an INI file when I originally built it I had thought about using XML but dismissed it at the time as my XML skills and knowledge were minimal to put it mildly (oddly, I have been aware of and using XML for over 12 years now, mainly as a … Continue reading The XML Is On The Kid