Category: Microsoft Office

In my last post we looked at how to set up the system to use OPENROWSET to read Excel Worksheets from SQL Server. I believe that using the OPENROWSET function is the most flexible and practical method for linking Excel worksheets to SQL Server. Before we look at OPENROWSET, however, let’s take a moment to review […]

Julia P. from the Learning Tree Transact-SQL Programming course writes “I’ve tried to use the OPENROWSET function to query Excel files, but I keep getting the same error. No matter what I try, SQL Server responds with “OLE DB provider “Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0” for linked server “(null)” returned message “Could not find installable ISAM.”.” Hi, Julia. Unfortunately,lots […]

In the previous segment, we saw how to write DAX statements in Excel to query Power Pivot Data. In this segment, we will take a first look at the SUMMARIZE function. While the DAX queries discussed here could be executed in the Management Studio against an Analysis Services tabular mode database, here we will be […]

Don’t get me wrong. Excel PivotTables are one of the best things since pizza and beer. (And considering how much I enjoy that particular combination of snack and beverage, that’s really saying something.) Nevertheless, there are times when you want to take full control, write your own DAX query, and display the results in a […]

Linear Regression using Microsoft Excel – Part 3 Interpreting the Results of a Linear Regression At first glance, the summary report for an Excel Linear Regression might seem to be a hodgepodge of cryptic numbers. In fact, the basic Excel summary report is pretty typical. The first thing we might take a look at is […]