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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 10: Implementing Query Diagnostics

Every transformation and data preparation step that you do has an impact on your performance when you develop Power Query transformations. You can analyze and test your queries to observe the consequences while refreshing your data and iteratively applying Power Query steps in Power BI Desktop.

In this chapter, we will see how to best use a built-in feature called Query Diagnostics, in order to easily retrieve relevant data on Power Query performance. In particular, we will go through the following recipes:

  • Exploring diagnostics options
  • Managing a diagnostics session
  • Designing a report with diagnostics results
  • Using Diagnose as a Power Query step