Talk:Pivot table

message: Why there is no mention of Javelin software when he predate Lotus Improv and implement mechanism for pivot tables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_Software ??  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calimero (talk • contribs) 10:01, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Javelin software 

message: Execucom's Financial Planning System had this feature for main frames many years before Improv.  I will try and get back here with more details.
Laughingskeptic (talk) 07:19, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Execucom's FPS 

message: This article currently doe not live up the the Wikipedia standard. I am not familiar with pivot tables. I came here to learn what it is, but I still do not understand what it is after reading the article. Could a knowleadgeable person please rewrite the article to be concise, and add some examples? Also, I find it irrelevant that the name is a trademark of Micro$oft Corporation. -- PeterThoeny - talk - 2007-02-17
: The example now makes it clear. Thanks for making this article accessible! -- PeterThoeny - 06:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please explain the concept with examples 

message: I've since fixed up this article, and would like to clean up the discussion page.  I'm not sure if I have to archive anything or just delete it.  Could someone verify the issues have been addressed, and clean up the discussion page? Wikidan829 14:04, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Archived. -- Avi 14:32, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding above complaints 

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message: I was under the impression the act was called data consolidation and the button to press on excel was pivot table. if they differ please specify. thanks --Squidonius (talk) 20:42, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Squidonius. Data consolidation appears to be more relevant to combining two or more datasources together, not the same as aggregating data from a single datasource. Wikidan829 (talk) 17:08, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Consolidation

message: This might be good for an end user of excel but it doesn't speak much of the pivot table -- also for data -- that is reference by the postgres 8.3 docs. It appears as if that pivot table simply turns row oriented data into column oriented data. EvanCarroll (talk) 17:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Has this concern been addressed? Has it been fixed?  New to watching here, I'll read the Article and see. -- Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 11:34, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Ambiguous in the wild

message: The comment about Google Docs assumes that Excel is the standard Gordon Findlay (talk) 23:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV?

message: The concept of a "pivot table" apparently means something entirely different for databases; see . The article should be updated with this detail (and I'll do that when I have time, if someone else hasn't first). - Brian Kendig (talk) 19:07, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Databases

message: I reverted the last edit. Not sure what it was about the last edit that broke the page. By the diffs, the last edit was minor.Fotoguzzi (talk) 03:25, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  /!\ Page is BUSTED /!\ 

message: Does a pivot table do something that accountants haven't been doing since the first ruled page? I'm not an accountant, but wouldn't they do something like run through a large list of receipts add each to a separate account book for, e. g., a particular department? If so, could a realistic example be included in the history section?Fotoguzzi (talk) 03:24, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History clarification 

message: "...but as of 2011 it provides limited functionality and is extremely slow with large amounts of data.
ZK, an Ajax framework, also allows to embed pivot tables in Web applications. Demo here."
Yeah, very neutral. Oh, and what an Excellent Explanation of Pivot Tables.
I came for an explanation of pivot tables. I stayed for the subtle marketing strategy.
66.90.152.153 (talk) 04:49, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV: someone associated with "ZK" is clearly using Wikipedia for free advertising. 

message: As of now, the software section is not written neutrally and overemphasizes some products.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.50.96.36 (talk) 13:19, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Software section is not neutral 

message: Is numberGo Publisher really a prominent enough product to be mentioned between Excel and Calc? That and the following paragraph about their 2.0 release seem like product placement.
Also, why are Excel and Publisher simply listed, with Calc relegated to "competing software" providing "similar functionality". Perhaps I'm splitting hairs, but this reads like bias. Are not Excel and Publisher also competitors? Is the pivot table functionality in Excel and Publisher somehow different or better than that in Calc? Jasongetsdown (talk) 01:47, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not. I added that as a product that I have personally used and in hindsight realize that it was probably inappropriate. I think if you look before my original edits to this article that you will find I've drastically improved it overall. The majority of my rewrite still exists. Sorry it took so long but I haven't actually logged on in years. Wikidan829 (talk) 05:32, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  numberGo? 

message: Can a native speaker of English please clean this up?
:I'll take a look "at my earliest convenience".  Has someone already improved the article herein?  -- Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 11:37, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Grammar in This Article is Horrible!