I have a MySQL DB and I fetch data from there via PowerPivot into

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Asked: June 6, 20262026-06-06T03:16:43+00:00 2026-06-06T03:16:43+00:00

I have a MySQL DB and I fetch data from there via PowerPivot into

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I have a MySQL DB and I fetch data from there via PowerPivot into a table.

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Then I created a PivotTable from this table data.

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Now the column month holds the month of the record as an index from 1 to 12. This doesn’t look pleasing to the eye, hence I would like to replace the index with its respective month name.

Like “March” for 3.

Here comes the concept of the lookupt table into play. So I set up a lookup table for the month names in the sheet “Lookup-Tables”.

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I clicked the “create related table” button …

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… and next thing I see is the very month table in the PowerPivot window. The respective sheet I called “month names”.

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what is missing is the link of course:

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As you can see I established a link between the original data table’s column “month” with the lookup table’s column “index”.

but no matter if I refresh or even create a new PivotTable … month still shows the index instead of the month name.

when I go back into the PivotTable I can select the lookup table’s colum “index” which leads to a yellow message stating that “maybe the relationships should be freshly established”. I click “do so” and next I see is a message that says that no relationship could be established!?

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I don’t get it?

My goal is pretty common sense and straight forward I think. If you have a different solution from using lookup tables … maybe using DAX (which I don’t know much about yet) … that would be great.