March 2011
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
6h 57m
English
Our solution will take advantage of PowerPivot for Excel’s ability to load data from a SQL Server database to the SQL Server Analysis Services database installed by the PowerPivot add-in for Excel. After defining a connection to SQL Server, specifically to the AdventureWorksDW2008R2 database, we will construct a table of Internet sales, summarized by product key. Finally, we will apply a sort and a value filter to get the top ten products, ranked by all-time Internet sales.
One of the easier data sources to set up for use by PowerPivot is a SQL Server database. After installing the sample databases, your SQL Server 2008 R2 instance should contain a database named AdventureWorksDW2008R2 ...