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Importing the Excel Power Pivot data model into the SSDT project

SQL Server Data Tools is a development environment built on top of Microsoft Visual Studio. In addition to being used to create SQL Server databases, it can be used to create and maintain an SSAS Tabular data model. As part of this, it is possible to import an existing Excel Power Pivot workbook.

For this exercise, we'll be using SSDT with Visual Studio 2019. The steps we'll follow will be very similar to when we used SSDT with previous versions of Visual Studio. We will be deploying the resulting data model to an instance of SSAS running on a copy of SQL Server 2017.

In addition to installing a version of Visual Studio 2019, you will also need to install the Visual Studio extension ...

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