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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By : Author Test, Brett Powell
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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By: Author Test, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data. This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence. This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Power BI via detailed recipes, advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Integrating multiple queries

The full power of Power BI's querying capabilities is in the integration of multiple queries via it's merge and append operations. Retrieval processes which consolidate files from multiple network locations or which integrate data from multiple data sources can be developed efficiently and securely. Additionally, the same join types and data transformation patterns SQL and ETL developers are familiar with can be achieved with the M language.

This recipe provides examples of combining sources into a single query and leveraging the table join functions of M to support common transformation scenarios.

Getting ready

  • To follow along with this recipe, you can use the Merge Queries and Append...