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From desktop to server based Power pivot.From Excel to SQL.

Henk Vlootman, Excel MVP

* Flavors of today: Power pivot in Excel and SQL

* Structure of a full SQL Power pivot model.* What is on today and what is not.* Preparations at desktop level:

What not to do in your Excel Power pivot model.

* Preparations at server side: Set up your model in SQL Server Data tools.

* Import in SQL Server Visual studio.* Time to demo.* My ego page.

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Flavors of today: Power pivotin Excel and SQL

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Deployment serverPurposes:* development* testing

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What is on today and what is not.

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Preparations on desktop side:What not to do in your Excel Power pivot model.* Don’t bother making dashboards in you’re Excel / Power pivot model. You’re

going to lose them anyway.* Don’t use tables to add to you’re model directly. Use import Excel files in

Power pivot instead.* Be aware of Power Query and direct import to Power pivot. I couldn’t make it

work (theoretical you can, but…).* If you use text files start with making Schema.ini files to be sure that you’re

import works fine. If you change to Visual Studio, you want them too.

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Preparations at server side:Set up your model in SQL Data tools* You can directly import your Excel Power pivot model(must be .xlsx, VBA

code not allowed )into SSAS server, by using the Restore functionality. You don’t like that, because there is a general lack of ability to alter the model.

* So first import the model into SQL Server Data tools (SSDT)* Import you’re Excel Power pivot model into SSDT (can be .xlsm, VBA code

allowed ) and watch how you’re databases are imported.* Create, if necessary, a workspace database and you’re good to go for you’re

Visual Studio experience.

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Import in Visual Studio.

* In Visual Studio You use Import from Tabular Server and select you’re project.

* You’re ready to go… amazing.

* But there is more…* You can add more Data sources…* And you can make testing dashboards in Excel…

* For me it is totally fun and * You have made you’re Excel Power pivot model corporate.

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Time to demo…

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My ego pageHenk Vlootman, Excel MVP

Vlootman Consultancy B.V.

henk@vlootman.nl www.vlootman.nl++31 6 54 97 44 87

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vlootman

MVP profile:http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Henk%20Vlootman-5000207

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