Everything You Always Wanted to Know About PowerPivot Data Refresh but Were Afraid to Ask
SQL Server Technical Article
Writer: Mariano Teixeira Neto
Technical Reviewers: Lee Graber, Heidi Steen, Dave Wickert
Published: September 2010
Applies to: SQL Server 2008 R2
**Summary:**The purpose of PowerPivot for SharePoint is to allow users to share their PowerPivot workbooks in a secure and scalable environment. To ensure that you are sharing and collaborating on the most recent data available to you, PowerPivot for SharePoint provides a data refresh feature that lets you automatically update PowerPivot data in an Excel workbook. This white paper describes in detail the data refresh feature in PowerPivot for SharePoint. It starts by explaining the steps for setting up a data refresh schedule in SharePoint, and then it continues with an in-depth view on how data refresh works on a SharePoint farm. Both administrators and the business analysts who author and manage PowerPivot workbook data can benefit from learning more about setting up and using data refresh in a SharePoint environment.
To review the document, please download the PowerPivot Data Refresh Word document.