September 2010
Beginner to intermediate
424 pages
12h 17m
English
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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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LESSON 32 Loading data into a PowerPivot workbook
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Try It
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TRY IT
Now that we have loaded data and you have seen some of the power behind PowerPivot, in this Try It
it’s time for you to do it yourself. As usual, in this example we used the AdventureWorks2008DW R2
database from
www.codeplex.com. You should do the same to make sure your results are consistent.
Lesson Requirements
In this lesson, you will load data into a PowerPivot workbook in Excel 2010 and verify the relation-
ships within that data. You will also explore the data using PowerPivot’s functionality. To complete
this lesson you need to have a workbook loaded with AdventureWorks data for analysis.
Hints
Remember to install the add-in first.
Verify that it is installed by opening Excel 2010 and seeing if you have a PowerPivot tab.
Import data from a SQL Server database.
Step-by-Step
1. Open a new Excel workbook and go to the PowerPivot tab.
2. Open the PowerPivot window by clicking the green icon at the top left section of the ribbon.
3. Select From Database and From SQL
Server, as in Figure 32-10, to reach the
screen where you enter your connection
information to get your data. Click Next
once you’ve entered your connection
information.
4. On the ...
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