In the PowerPivot Manager window you will see many tabs listing records. Make sure you get Success message finally, click Close.Ħ. Click Next again and select the required Tables (10 selected), click Finish.ĥ. Select AdventureWorksDW2012 Database from the Database name dropdown, and click Next.Ĥ. Provide SQL Server Instance name that you want to connect to. Now on this new window, click on From Database icon and select From SQL Server from the dropdown, this will open a Table Import Wizard Popup window.ģ. Open Excel, and go to POWERPIVOT tab and click on Manage, this will open a new PowerPivot Manager window.Ģ. Click to download AdventureWorksDW2012 DB from CodePlex.ġ. To create a Data Model you need a Data Source, so we will use SQL Server as a Data Source and I’ve setup AdventureWorksDW2012 Database for our hands-on. Check this to troubleshoot if you don’t see POWERPIVOT option in Excel ribbon. –> The benefit of creating Data Model in Power Pivot is that Power Pivot Models run in-memory so that users can analyze 100’s of millions of rows of data with lightning fast performance.Īll you need is Microsoft Excel 2013 to create your Data Model. Format and filter your Data, create Calculated fields, define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to use in PivotTables and create User-Defined hierarchies to use throughout a workbook.Īnd here in second part I will discuss about few of these features. Refresh from its Original sources as often as you want.ģ. Create your own Data Model from various Data Sources, Modeled and Structured to fit your business needs.Ģ. Power Query and how to use it to discover and gather data.ġ.

In my previous Power BI Series first part I discussed about the first component of Power BI, i.e. After a long pause I’m back again to discuss on Power BI.

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