Power pivot connections

1. How do Power Pivot relationships work?
2. How many relationships are there in Power Pivot?
3. How do I see PivotTable connections?
4. How do I connect Powerpivot to SQL Server?
5. Is Power Pivot a relational database?
6. What type of relationship can be provided in Power Pivot?
7. How do I create a relationship between two Excel spreadsheets?
8. How many rows can Power Pivot handle?
9. Why is my PivotTable not showing in report connections?
10. How do I add an existing connection in Excel?
11. How do I create a connection in power query?
12. How do I enable filter connections in PivotTable?

How do Power Pivot relationships work?

Power Pivot creates a relationship between the tables based on the EditionID column, and draws a line between the two columns, indicating the relationship.

How many relationships are there in Power Pivot?

There are two types of relationship, a one to many which work very well in Power Pivot and DAX.

How do I see PivotTable connections?

Click Insert > PivotTable. In the Create PivotTable dialog box, click From External Data Source. Click Choose Connection. On the Connections tab, in the Show box, keep All Connections selected, or pick the connection category that has the data source you want to connect to.

How do I connect Powerpivot to SQL Server?

In Microsoft Windows click Start, select All Programs, and select the Microsoft SQL Server group. Select SQL Server Management Studio. Connect to the Analysis Services instance, for example [your server name]\POWERPIVOT. If you can connect to the instance, you have verified the Service is running.

Is Power Pivot a relational database?

As discussed in previous blogs, Power Pivot allows you to take multiple sources of data and combine the data tables together into one interrelated database known as a relational database.

What type of relationship can be provided in Power Pivot?

As the foundation of Power Pivot, the one-to-many relationship is a typical unidirectional relationship. In the example above, the Customer table is on the 1 side of the relationship and the Sales table is on the many side of the relationship (i.e. we may make more than one sale to the same customer).

How do I create a relationship between two Excel spreadsheets?

In the Manage Relationships box, click New. In the Create Relationship box, click the arrow for Table, and select a table from the list. In a one-to-many relationship, this table should be on the many side.

How many rows can Power Pivot handle?

The “limitations” here are that you can have 2,147,483,647 tables in this “Database” and each of those tables can have a maximum of 2,147,483,647 columns and 1,999,999,997 rows.

Why is my PivotTable not showing in report connections?

If you want to connect multiple pivot tables to a slicer but the Report Connections (Status) window does not display the report you want to add, this means the pivot tables were not created using the same source.

How do I add an existing connection in Excel?

To open the Existing Connections dialog box, select Data > Existing Connections. You can display all the connections available to you and Excel tables in your workbook. You can open a connection or table from the list and then use the Import Data dialog box to decide how you want to import the data.

How do I create a connection in power query?

Go to the Data tab > Get & Transform group and click From Table/Range. In the Power Query Editor that opens, click on the Close & Load drop-down arrow (not the button itself!) and select the Close and Load To… option. In the Import Data dialog box, select the Only Create Connection option and click OK.

How do I enable filter connections in PivotTable?

Select a cell in the second pivot table. On the Excel Ribbon's Analyze tab, in the Filter group, click Filter Connection.