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We got a taste of how to browse data from within SSMS in the first article of this series, “ Getting Started with the SSAS Tabular Model.” In Object Explorer, right-click the database and then click Browse. On my system, I’ve implemented the database on a local instance of SSAS 2012 in tabular mode. The examples pull data from the AdventureWorks Tabular Model SQL 2012 database, available as a SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) tabular project from the AdventureWorks CodePlex site. Some of what was covered in that article will apply to retrieving data from within Excel.įor this article, I provide a number of examples of how to import tabular data into Excel. In the last article, “ Using DAX to retrieve tabular data,” we discussed how to create Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) statements to retrieve tabular data, working from within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to run our queries against an SSAS tabular instance. This is the third article in a series about SSAS tabular data. In this article, we explore how to use Excel to view and retrieve data from an SSAS tabular database. Creating a tabular database in PowerPivot, and by extension, within Excel, is a fairly prescribed process that involves retrieving data from one or more data sources-most notably SQL Server databases-and creating one or more tables based on that data.ĭespite all the attention paid to PowerPivot and its tabular databases, there has been relatively little focus on how to retrieve tabular data directly from a SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) instance into Excel, whether through PowerPivot or directly into a workbook.
Until recently, most of the talk about tabular data revolved around PowerPivot, an Excel add-in that brings powerful in-memory data crunching to the spreadsheet environment. Using Microsoft Excel to Retrieve SSAS Tabular Data - Simple Talk Skip to content
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