SSRS/Powerview to compare SQL table and excel sheet

I have a SQL table and an excel sheet with some data...
I want to be able to compare the two and find out which Excel rows are missing in the SQL table...
Would it be easier to do this report in SSRS or would it be better to do it in Excel PowerView?
If so how do I go about it?
Thanks in advance for your help...
Dhananjay Rele

Hi Dhananjay,
According to your description, you want to compare the data of a SQL table and an excel sheet. To achieve this goal, we can create two tables in Reporting Services report, one for SQL table with SQL Server connection type, another for excel sheet with ODBC
connection type.
For more details about how to create the report, please see the following steps:
Create a report server project with SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Business Intelligence Templates list.
Create a new report definition file in Solution Explorer.
Create a Data Source named DataSource1 with Microsoft SQL Server Type, then select the SQL table database from the corresponding server.
Create a Data Source named DataSource2 with ODBC Type, then select the excel file.
Create two datasets which returns the SQL data and Excel sheet data based on the two data source, one for DataSource1, another for DataSource2.
Create two table next to each other based on the datasets on the design surface.
References:
Create a Basic Table Report (SSRS Tutorial)
Create SSRS report using Excel Data Source Step by Step
If there are any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Regards,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support

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I see that my session uses about 62M in PGA. If I run this script twice, the memory usage is doubled and so on.
The same result I get if I rewrite not highest, but middle PL/SQL type:
TYPE TTab1 IS TABLE OF TRec1 INDEX BY VARCHAR2(256);
And only if I change the third, most nested type:
TYPE TTab0 IS TABLE OF NUMBER INDEX BY VARCHAR2(256);
I get the desired result -- all memory was returned to OS.
So, as far as I can judge, in some cases Oracle does not clean complex PL/SQL tables indexed by VARCHAR2.
Is it true or not? Perhaps there are some features in using such way indexed tables?

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Hello, I am very new to the Oracle DB as I have been working with MS SQL Server for many years. I have a SQL statement that works fine in MSSQL but seems to not work in Oracle. Is this a syntax problem or do I need to look elsewhere?
DECLARE @as_master_key varchar(26)
EXEC [dbo].[GET_UNIQUE_MASTER_KEY]
     @as_project_name = N'CMDEMO',
     @as_database_site = N'CMPL',
     @as_user_initials = N'SK',
     @as_table = N'SUBMITTAL_CATEGORY',
     @as_master_key =
     @as_master_key
OUTPUT SELECT @as_master_key as N'master_key'
This is what I use in MSSQL and it works fine - but I am porting this application to an Oracle backend and it fails. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance to this newbie. :)

SQL Server and Oracle are two completely different RDBMS'.
You'd be best not to try and port SQL Server code to Oracle SQL or PL/SQL directly as it will not favour the power of Oracle's features correctly.
I'm not sure what your code is supposed to be doing (I find SQL Server code awful to read, and never understand the need for "@" before variable names, that just seems to show a lazy parser (or lazy coder who designed the parser)).
From what I can guess it's going to be something like...
SQL code...
create or replace sequence my_master_key;PL/SQL code...
DECLARE
as_master_key number;
as_project_name varchar2(20) := 'CMDEMO';
as_database_site varchar2(20) := 'CMPL';
as_user_initials varckar2(5) := 'SK';
as_table varchar2(30) := 'SUBMITTAL_CATEGORY';
BEGIN
select my_master_key.nextval
into as_master_key
from dual;
-- In 11g you could replace this select with just:
-- as_master_key = my_master_key.nextval;
END;This get's a unique sequence value into a variable and declares all the other variables. What you want to do with them after that I don't know.

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