microsoft access vs. microsoft powerpivot
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Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Powerpivot. Kate Lynch. What Do These Have in Common. Why Do People Even Need Access or PowerPivot ?. Excel is useful to use for creating spreadsheets, formulas, and sorting through information. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
MICROSOFT ACCESS VS. MICROSOFT POWERPIVOTKate Lynch
What Do These Have in Common
Why Do People Even Need Access or PowerPivot?
Excel is useful to use for creating spreadsheets, formulas, and sorting through information.
When dealing with large amounts of information Excel is no longer the best resource to use.
Excel can only handle small data sets of information.
What is Microsoft Access? Access is made up of seven major
component Tables, Relationships, Queries, Forms,
Reports, Macros and Modules.
Tables and Relationships Tables
Store data entered into the database. If not entered properly, the database may
not act correctly. Relationships
Are the bonds you build between the tables They join tables that have associated
elements
Weakness of Access VLOOKUP Function
Needed to join tables together in Access.
PowerPivot allows the user to define a relationship between two or more items
Once a relationship is defined a user only has to relate the columns together in order obtain the information needed.
What is PowerPivot and how is it Different? Built in to Excel
Process massive amounts of data in seconds Load data sets from any source Contains a powerful new formula language, Data
Analysis Expressions (DAX), which includes 60 new functions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms149Qi2PVA
Access Compared to PowerPivot
ACCESS
POWERPIVOT
• Maximum Number of Rows• 64,000
• Maximum Storage Capability • 2 GB
• Number of Formulas• 80
• Maximum Number of Rows• Unlimited
• Maximum Storage Capability • 4 GB
• Number of Formulas• 160
Importing Data
Why PowerPivot is Better It is not a new program that needs to be learned.
Uses PivotTables and Excel Functions.
Information can be organized and sorted faster.
Enhanced user features have been and will continue converting Access users over to PowerPivot.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/powerpivot.aspx
Questions?
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