Here’s what a recent PowerPivot process looked like

  • 14,512,074 Rows
  • 7 Columns
  • 14:09 to load data from SQL Server at 30M
  • 5:36 to save file
  • 129MB file size
  • 0:14 recalc time
  • 1,559,700KB used by the EXCEL.EXE process

On this client machine:

  • Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit
  • Excel 2010 64bit
  • 36GB RAM
  • 2.4Ghz Xeon processor

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