By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@hotmail.com), on September 8th, 2010
Recently there was a forum post concerning how PowerPivot parallelizes data refresh . . and I thought this might be an interesting topic for a “Peek Inside” blog posting. The first question is: Why are we doing this? What is the purpose of parallelizing data refresh? Why is this so important? Well . . there [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on November 15th, 2009
Ok. This post will be a bit complicated but stick with me. Hopefully, in the end, all will be clear. And the geek in you will love it.
One of the things that users just kind of glance over, but don’t realize the implication, is the fact that PowerPivot is a copy of the data. If [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on November 12th, 2009
In this posting we will take a more detailed technical look at how the data refresh facility works and the steps that it takes to accomplish a data refresh cycle. Rather than starting with the “Manage data refresh” page, we will assume that you know how to setup a schedule – in this posting, we [...]
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