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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide Get to grips with Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing technologies using this practical guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849688888
Length 350 pages
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Data Warehouse Design 2. SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional Cube Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Tabular Model Development of SQL Server Analysis Services 4. ETL with Integration Services 5. Master Data Management 6. Data Quality and Data Cleansing 7. Data Mining – Descriptive Models in SSAS 8. Identifying Data Patterns – Predictive Models in SSAS 9. Reporting Services 10. Dashboard Design 11. Power BI 12. Integrating Reports in Applications Index

Time for action – creating an entity with data from the Excel Add-in


MDS entities can be created with data from the Excel Add-in. In this example, we will load data from a database table into an Excel sheet and then create an MDS entity using the structure and data taken from the Excel sheet.

  1. Open an empty workbook in Excel and go to the Data tab.

  2. Click on the From Other Sources option (in the Get External Data section) and select From SQL Server.

  3. Enter localhost as the SQL server name, then select AdventureWorksDW2012 as database, and select DimProductCategory. Click on Continue to finish. You will see the product categories listed in the Excel sheet.

  4. Go to the Master Data tab. Connect to the MDS connection that you created in first example of this chapter.

  5. Select the cells of the Excel sheet that contain the data of the product category. Then click on the Create Entity icon in the Master Data tab under the Build Entity section.

  6. Choose PacktPub_BI_Model as model, leave the version as is, and...

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