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Power Query Cookbook

By : Andrea Janicijevic
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Power Query Cookbook

By: Andrea 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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Power Query

Power Query is a data preparation tool that enables data engineers and business users to connect, reshape, enrich, and transform their data. This allows them to facilitate relevant business insights analysis. Power Query is a technology that strengthens self-service business intelligence with an intuitive and consistent experience. It consists of a graphical interface that facilitates the connection to data sources and the application of different ranges of transformation.

Power Query is not a standalone tool; it can be used inside different tools in two different versions: Power Query Desktop and Power Query Online. The first version is available in Excel, Power BI, and SQL Server Analysis Services, while the second is available in the Power BI service, Power Apps, Power Automate, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. Depending on where Power Query is used, users will be able to store reshaped data in...