Combining Data from Multiple Data Sources in PowerPivot

Written by Robert C. Cain

Wednesday, 02 December 2009 11:53

Seldom does the user of PowerPivot have all of the data they need in one nice, neat data source. More than often it will be necessary to import data from a variety of sources and make that data work together. It’s time to start building on what we’ve learned over the last few days to accomplish this feat.

First, launch Excel 2010 and use the PowerPivot import wizard to import the following tables from the AdventureWorksLT2008 database: Address, Customer, CustomerAddress, Product, ProductCategory, SalesOrderDetail, SalesOrderHeader. (Note, for a refresher on importing data please see my blog post, Import Filters in PowerPivot.)