I have a powerpivot workbook that has been working just fine. at end of month I update various tables by pulling datadown directly from an SQL server. This month I connected and pulled down most of the tables apart from one. this particular table is driven by an SQL query. What happens is the query runs and i see it collecting the right number of rows of data then it just spins its wheels for ages until excel crashes. If I go to the event log I see this
Faulting application name: EXCEL.EXE, version: 15.0.4517.1506, time stamp: 0x51c9abc3
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18015, time stamp: 0x50b8479b
Exception code: 0xe06d7363
Fault offset: 0x0000000000009e5d
Faulting process id: 0x1ba8
Faulting application start time: 0x01ceabe043aece8b
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\EXCEL.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 7c87f697-17d4-11e3-be35-90b11c9a7548
I tried pasting the same SQL code into a fresh tab in the workbook and it works without any issue so it is clearly something happening with the calculated columns on the table in question. I added a date filter to my query and limited to Jan 2013 and it updated fine. When I tried to put it back to Jul13 (which was the data already in there form last month) it crashed again. Seems I can reduce the data (guess it just throws away rows) put not increase the data.
so far i have tried without any success
1. Disable add-in, close excel, reopen enable add-in
2. as above with a reboot before reopening and enabling
3. uninstall office pro plus 2013 and reinstall
I use these reports to run all our EOM financials and KPIs so really in trouble here. Any suggestions as seems ot be a corruption issue in excel not a data issue.
Mike