SharePoint is not optimized to host very large files and it has a hard limit of 2 gigabytes (GB) for a single file.Why do you upsize a PowerPivot workbook?Ĭonsider upsizing your PowerPivot workbook after it exceeds 100 megabytes (MB) for the following reasons: The key is that the same query engine is used regardless of where the model is stored, the Excel application, SharePoint or SSAS.
PowerPivot stores models in Excel Workbooks when you use a SharePoint centric mode and stores the models in native SSAS files when you use SSAS storage mode. The result is that the PowerPivot model and data won't be stored in SharePoint. Upsizing PowerPivot is moving the solution from a SharePoint centric storage mode to an SSAS centric storage mode. What is upsizing PowerPivot? (aka convert PowerPivot to Tabular model, aka convert PowerPivot to SSAS) The data will display from another workbook that connects to the PowerPivot workbook as a data source or from some other reporting tool such as Power View or Excel Services.
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This article introduces how to upsize a PowerPivot workbook to a Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Tabular instance for knowledge workers or SharePoint administrators.Īssume that you are using PowerPivot as a data source, so no UI is present in the workbook that's hosting the PowerPivot data model. This article was written by Warren Rath, Support Escalation Engineer.
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