September 2010
Beginner to intermediate
424 pages
12h 17m
English
book
Knight's Microsoft® Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer: Leveraging Microsoft SQL Server® Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services with Excel® and SharePoint®
by Brian Knight, Devin Knight, Adam Jorgensen, Patrick LeBlanc, Mike Davis
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Loading Data into a
PowerPivot Workbook
This lesson will teach you about a new technology in Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint
Enterprise 2010 called PowerPivot. PowerPivot is a new form of Analysis Services that integrates
into Excel and SharePoint through some exciting new capabilities. In this lesson you will learn
what this new environment is about and how to load data into it for analysis. We will cover
reporting from this data in the next lesson, and cover the SharePoint integration later in the
book, in Section VI.
WHAT IS POWERPIVOT?
PowerPivot is a powerful new free add-in for MS Excel and provides a new way to install Analysis
Services in SQL Server to integrate with SharePoint 2010. In this lesson we will focus on Excel.
The PowerPivot add-in is a free download from
www.powerpivot.com, which is Microsoft’s site
devoted to this new technology. This add-in is essentially an encapsulated version of Analysis
Services: It runs in memory as an add-in right from within Excel 2010 and gives you the ability
to load very large amounts of data and work with them efficiently.
This ability to load large amounts of data now expands the power of Excel by combining it
with the analytical capabilities of Analysis Services. This was previously limited by Excel’s
million-row limit. While Excel still has this limitation, through the PowerPivot add-in, users
can drive more intelligent dec ...
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