Connect to the database We tried this using MS-SQL 2000 Server for the database and Excel from MS Office XP. To query the database, start Excel, go to the Tools menu and click on Add-Ins.

SQL, like Excel, has a long-standing history in organizations. It allows for well-defined relationships between and within tables, making it a powerful language for exploring data hosted in a ...

In Excel 2013, our primary BI tools are PowerPivot, a data-modeling tool, and Power View, a data-visualization tool, and they are built right into the software, no additional downloads required.