Learn how to install and configure SQL Server Management Studio, download a SQL Server, and connect them on a Windows 11/10/Server computer..

Not surprisingly, Microsoft itself uses this to provide Big Data services right within Excel – Excel is one of the primary clients to enable big data analytics on Microsoft platforms.

The Connection Properties dialog opens. For my sample ITworld application, I changed the data source to Microsoft SQL Server (SQLClient), and entered the necessary Server, Log On, and database values.

When you connect your Excel, Tableau or QlikView to your Hadoop data in Cloudera, Hortonworks, or MapR, you are connecting via a Simba ODBC Driver. Simba, a twenty-year veteran in the industry, ...