Calculated Columns in PowerPivot
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When importing data into PowerPivot, users often find the data is almost, but not quite what they need. Perhaps the name is not quite formatted as they need, or some calculation, not important in the stored data but very important to their work, is missing. For these situations PowerPivot offers Calculated Columns.
Calculated Columns provide a way for users to add that missing information they require into the source data. The calculations are done on a row by row basis, if you want to do something on the entire table, for example count the number of rows, you will instead need to create a measure in your PivotTable or PivotChart. Measures will be covered in a later post.