I wonder if someone can help me with the following problem. First off my setup (which I can't change because it is a corporate environment)
- Operating system: Windows 7 Professional. Service Pack 1. 32bit
- Hardware: 8.00 GB RAM (2.73 Gb usable)
I am looking for a solution for slicing and dicing really big files (around 5Gb) with Excel. So the equivalent of being able to use pivot tables and graphs with so much data.
I just got Power Query and Power Pivot installed on my laptop (remember I'm running Excel 2010 - 32bit) and saved the huge .csv file as a connection with Power Query. However, I can't add it to my data model and use it from Power Pivot (apparently that is a problem in Excel 2010). I tried to get around by clicking on Power Pivot -> existing connections. But then it tries to import everything and I run out of memory or hit some Excel limit.
To me, the idea should be that the data is never loaded, that it is kept as a connection (where you only store the query) and that data is loaded "lazily" and only what you need after you set up the Power Pivot report (otherwise I don't know how Power Query and Power Pivot help to work with big files that wouldn't fit in Excel otherwise).
What can I do to add the connection to the huge file to the data model so that I can continue working until I can set up a report (with Power Pivot) and see the results?
If there is a software package I am missing (such as Power BI), that would help me fix the problem please let me know. If it's free (like Power Query and Power Pivot) I could have it installed.
Thank you very much in advance and regards