{"id":78927,"date":"2026-11-10T19:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bangla.sitestree.com\/?p=78927"},"modified":"2026-11-10T19:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T19:55:17","slug":"rewritten-sql-server-74166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bangla.sitestree.com\/?p=78927","title":{"rendered":"Data Mining with Excel and SQL Server: Legacy Tools and Modern Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excel and SQL Server have been used together for extracting, cleaning, exploring, and modelling business data. It is important to distinguish current analytical workflows from historical SQL Server Analysis Services data-mining tools.<\/p>\n<h2>A sensible workflow<\/h2>\n<p>Load transaction data into a staging table, validate missing values and outliers, create a curated dataset with T-SQL, and export or connect that dataset to Excel, Power BI, Python, or another analytical tool.<\/p>\n<h2>Example analytical query<\/h2>\n<pre><code>SELECT CustomerID,\n       COUNT_BIG(*) AS OrderCount,\n       SUM(OrderTotal) AS LifetimeRevenue\nFROM dbo.Orders\nWHERE OrderDate &gt;= '2025-01-01'\nGROUP BY CustomerID;<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2>Legacy compatibility<\/h2>\n<p>The original Analysis Services data-mining algorithms and related Excel add-ins are historical technologies. Microsoft says SSAS data mining was deprecated in SQL Server 2017 and discontinued in SQL Server 2022. Do not design a new system assuming that discontinued feature is available.<\/p>\n<h2>Current practice<\/h2>\n<p>Use SQL Server for reliable storage, data preparation, and governance; choose a separately supported analytics platform for forecasting, classification, clustering, and experiment tracking. Evaluate model accuracy and leakage independently of the database engine.<\/p>\n<h2>Documentation<\/h2>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s historical feature reference: https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/analysis-services\/data-mining\/data-mining-ssas<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>About this article:<\/strong> This AI-generated educational rewrite was prepared from an existing Open Education article, with new explanations and illustrative examples where helpful. <a href=\"https:\/\/bangla.sitestree.com\/?p=74166\">Read the earlier article (post 74166)<\/a>. The new text may be freely copied, edited, and reused with or without attribution to this site. Third-party material, brand names, and linked resources retain their own rights. <strong>AI can make mistakes:<\/strong> verify syntax, version support, security practices, and outcomes against official documentation before use, especially in production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excel and SQL Server have been used together for extracting, cleaning, exploring, and modelling business data. 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