Power Pivot and SQL

[ammartino44]

If I am being given access to company databases, do I need a DMS and then use Power Pivot on top of the DMS or is there a way to use Power Pivot as a DMS and visualize the tables in excel? I was previously using SQL Express and I figured I would just write queries in PowerPivot to pull from there. Is this the right approach? Thanks. 

[v-shex-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @ammartino44,

I think you don't need dms, you can directly use excel to connect sql database.

For detail information, you can take a look at below article:

Connect a SQL Server database to your workbook

In addition, if you want to know how to create the pivot table, you can refer to below link:

How to Create Pivot Charts in Excel 2016

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng