Devry University – Chicago 2017 – SQL Saturday #600

Continued from SQL Saturday Chicago 2017.

Event Update

Session Description:

Analyzing SQL Server Data using PowerPivot in MS Excel

Speaker(s)Wylie Blanchard

Duration: 60 minutes

Track: BI Information Delivery

Your end users want to analyze data in your data warehouse. They could deal with the learning curve of SSAS but they’d prefer to utilize a familiar application like MS Excel. Welcome, PowerPivot, a tool that retrieves data from your data warehouse by combining the power of SSAS models and your SQL Server Data warehouse within the familiar interface of MS Excel. In this presentation well explore SSAS BI Semantic model, PowerView, PowerPivot in Excel.

Accompanying Materials:

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Download: Presentation SlidesDemo


Get the step by step guide:

Analyze & Visualize SQL Server Data w/ Power Pivot & Power View in Excel

In this tutorial we’ll use Microsoft Excel to retrieve data from our SQL Server database. We’ll then model, analyze and visualize the data using Excel’s Power Pivot and Power View features…


SQLSaturday is a training event for Microsoft Data Platform professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server, Business Intelligence, and Analytics. This event was held on Mar 11, 2017, at DeVry University – Addison Campus, 1221 North Swift Road, Addison, Illinois, 60101, United States