Database Reference
In-Depth Information
overall experience as you move through the chapters' walkthroughs. The
data sets were carefully crafted to support the walkthroughs and demos, and
some chapters have data sets to make them more approachable while others
have very specific sources of data to be able to showcase specific features in
a product or approach.
G E T TI N G DATA
The first step is getting some data, so open Excel and connect to your data-
base, as explained in the following steps.
1.
With Excel open, go to the Data tab and select Get External Data
a
From
Other Sources
a
From SQL Server, as shown in Figure 4-4.
FIguRe 4-4
Connecting to your data source
