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Learn about an important feature in the Power BI query editor, referencing other queries. Using this feature will help reduce query dependencies and allow for easier updates if the data source changes for the report.
Article by: Reid Havens
Welcome back P3 Nation! By now we’re in full swing with this Power Query (M)agic series, three posts and counting! You’re now knowledgeable enough about Power Query (if you read Part One and Part Two, anyway) that I want to throw some cool techniques at you involving M code. The time has come to take off the metaphorical training wheels, dive into the deep end, leave the nest, take a leap of faith (boy does this guy love idioms…), because frankly you are READY FOR IT. “I know it, you know it, everyone knows it.”
Article by: Reid Havens
Welcome back P3 Nation for Part 2 of our Power Query (M)agic series! Today I’ll be addressing an issue many of us have experienced, what to do with the LAUNDRY LIST of PQ queries you have. Since it feels really awkward to say Power Query Queries…for the rest of this post they will be simply called queries, keeping it simple folks! Any respectable data model often ends up with a plethora of queries. The more queries you have, the harder it is to navigate or find the one you want. This is where today’s solution comes in!
Article by: Reid Havens
P3 friends…for those of you in the know (and for those who aren’t), Power Query (or PQ for short) is one of the cornerstones of the Microsoft BI Suite. It’s a tool built into Excel 2016 and Power BI Desktop that allows us to extract our data (78 data connectors and GROWING), transform our data (it’s more than meets the eye), and finally load our data into a Data Model. Wait…so PQ extracts, transforms, and loads data? Those words spell out ETL as an initialism!
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Reid Havens’ early love affair with analytics has, over the past decade, turned into an evolution into data visualization and report design in Power BI.
Since then Reid has been writing articles and creating YouTube videos to share the word of BI, helping to inspire the next generation of Business Intelligence enthusiasts.
