
Power Pivot can work with very large data sets. You can output data visually to create a dashboard view that is easy to understand at a glance, even by clients or managers who aren’t experts with the data. If you aren't familiar with this amazing tool, here are four reasons you will want to learn Power Pivot: This Power Pivot online training, which Ken Puls has developed with a company called GoSkills, will help you step up your game and take your skills to new heights. Hope this helps, and please share your findings.Are you ready to turbocharge your PivotTables? Power Pivot is a free Excel add in that allows you to perform powerhouse data analysis and modeling to make intelligent business decisions. The full version costs $580 and may well be worth it.Īnother issue you may face with this OLE DB driver is if you need Mac support. Note that the trial version of the OLE DB provider limits the results to 100 records and you can only view a limited number of tables via Powerpivot. It may well be worth it depending on your scenario, unless Amazon adds Powerpivot support to their ODBC driver. I plan on trying out the full version of the OLE DB provider in the next week or so. I did stumble upon and try the trial version of an OLE DB provider for Redshift from and have been successful in pulling data from Redshift into Powerpivot. May be this is what amirbehzad is referring to? Note that a non-powerpivot connection (via Data > From Other Data Sources > Data Connection Wizard) is successful via the Amazon ODBC driver. I too had the exact same problem, and stumbled onto this thread, having being unsuccessful in connecting Powerpivot to Redshift via the Amazon ODBC driver or the Postgres 8 driver (as suggested by an AWS engineer). So it's not due to a basic issue like login or driver. I am able to download the data to Excel when I am not using Power Pivot: the download works perfectly well from the DATA menu in Excel. The current operation was cancelled because another operation in the transaction failed. An error occurred while processing table 'xxx'. ODBC driver does not support the requested properties. I then get the error : "OLE DB or ODBC error. Select the table that I want to connect to, from the list shown. Connected to my Redshift database (the test connection works). I have tried to connect it to Power Pivot as follows:
The database that I need to analyze is in Amazon Redshift (it is an export from Amazon Mobile Analytics).
Hi: Has anyone ever managed to connect a Amazon Redshift database to Power Pivot in Excel 2013? It does not seem to work and from my online searches, I found that many people are facing the same issue.įor business intelligence / reporting purposes, I am using Power Pivot as an add-in for Excel 2013 on Windows 10 (32 bit version of Excel).