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Power Query Cookbook

Power Query Cookbook

By : Janicijevic
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Power Query Cookbook

Power Query Cookbook

4.5 (14)
By: Janicijevic

Overview of this book

Power Query is a data preparation tool that enables data engineers and business users to connect, reshape, enrich, and transform their data to facilitate relevant business insights and analysis. With Power Query's wide range of features, you can perform no-code transformations and complex M code functions at the same time to get the most out of your data. This Power Query book will help you to connect to data sources, achieve intuitive transformations, and get to grips with preparation practices. Starting with a general overview of Power Query and what it can do, the book advances to cover more complex topics such as M code and performance optimization. You'll learn how to extend these capabilities by gradually stepping away from the Power Query GUI and into the M programming language. Additionally, the book also shows you how to use Power Query Online within Power BI Dataflows. By the end of the book, you'll be able to leverage your source data, understand your data better, and enrich it with a full stack of no-code and custom features that you'll learn to design by yourself for your business requirements.
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Folding queries

You often connect to relational sources, and it is important to know how to leverage query folding in order to retrieve data from the sources with Power Query steps that act as a single query statement. Query folding helps us to push more steps toward the origin data source in order to reduce the number of steps processed by the Power Query engine.

In this recipe, you will see how to perform query folding and how to control it.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you need to connect to an Azure SQL database that you can recreate in your environment with the Adventureworks.bacpac file.

How to do it…

Once you open your Power BI Desktop application, you are ready to perform the following steps:

  1. Click on Get data and then More… to access the Get Data window and see the complete list of connectors.

    Figure 6.35 – Power BI connectors

  2. Browse to the Azure SQL database connector, select it, and click on Connect.
    Figure 6.36 – Azure SQL database connector

    Figure 6.36 – Azure...

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