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Software ==>	SSAS - tabular (30 exercises)
Topic ==>	Other data sources (1 exercise)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	SSAS training

Bring in data from Excel, Access and Word (via the clipboard) to create a 4-table data model

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

This should be easy: all you have to do is count how many stores there are in each region. What could possibly go wrong?

Sadly, Mr. Angry has taken your nice SQL Server tables and scattered them into a diverse range of data sources. Your task is to round them up in a data model!

Open the workbook called Stores in the above folder to have a look at its contents, then close it down. Now create a new tabular model project, and import this table into it from this Excel file:

Rename your table in your data model.

Now open up the Word document called Regions in the above folder to view its contents. Select all of the data in the table of regions, copy it and paste it into your data model with the name Region to get:

You can't tell that the table on the left comes from Excel, and the one on the right from the clipboard.

Import the table called tblCentre from the Access database called Geography in the above folder (you won't need to type in a user name or password):