Table Relationships

One of PowerPivot for Excel’s current limitations is that there is no direct means of creating relationships between tables based on multiple columns. You can use DAX expressions as a way of crafting a workaround.

Understanding the Problem

One of the limitations in the initial release of PowerPivot for Excel concerns relationships between tables. At this time, PowerPivot for Excel only supports one-to-one and one-to-many relationships between tables.

A one-to-one relationship exists where a given row in one table is related to at most one row in a lookup table. Figure 4-9 illustrates a one-to-one relationship between a table of employees and a table of spouses. Each employee row would have at most one related row in the spouse ...

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