When you search a range of data, for example, by using the VLOOKUP function, the search is always performed by using a unique criterion. How to perform multiple searches or quickly change criteria? In the following text, you will learn about the DGET function, which allows for greater flexibility and easier finding of the required values in a given range.
In one of the earlier posts I wrote about that PowerBI comes in many “flavors”: as a Cloud Service (PowerBI.com) as a development environment (PowerBI Desktop), as application for mobile devices available on Windows, Android and iOS platforms (PowerBI Mobile). Since the majority of you who are reading these lines deal with reports development I decided to demonstrate you, in a practical example, how to use PowerBI Desktop.
Excel is a software with lots of features, but perhaps its best application is data analysis. In order to have something to analyze, we must retrieve the data. Operational data are held in relational databases, so we should connect to DBMS. Most of the time it is and istance of Microsoft SQL Server. When connecting we’ll importing a content of a table, view or result of a query into Excel worksheet.