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.

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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