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Software ==>	PowerPivot (72 exercises)
Topic ==>	Date functions (10 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Power BI training

Use the TOTALQTD function to accumulate quarter-to-date figures for each environment

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file . Once you've done this:

Go into SQL Server Management Studio;
Open the SQL file you've just unzipped (you can press CTRL + O to do this); then
Execute this script.

This will generate the database that you'll need to use in order to do this exercise (note that the database and script are only to be used for exercises published on this website, and may not be reused or distributed in any form without the prior written permission of Wise Owl).

Create a new workbook, and import the following tables into a PowerPivot data model:

The five tables you need to import (giving each a friendly name).

Create a relationship between the purchase date column in the Purchase table and the Calendar table's date key:

You can now summarise purchases by month, quarter or year of purchase.

Create a pivot table similar to the following:

Show total sales by quarter and environment for 2015.

You can find the timeline tool on the Analyze tab of the ribbon.

Use the TOTALQTD function to create a measure called Quarter-to-date to accumulate quarterly sales data, and show this instead of total sales: