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Power Query Cookbook

You're reading from   Power Query Cookbook Use effective and powerful queries in Power BI Desktop and Dataflows to prepare and transform your data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569485
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrea Janicijevic Andrea Janicijevic
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Power Query 2. Chapter 2: Connecting to Fetch Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Data Exploration in Power Query 4. Chapter 4: Reshaping Your Data 5. Chapter 5: Combining Queries for Efficiency 6. Chapter 6: Optimizing Power Query Performance 7. Chapter 7: Leveraging the M Language 8. Chapter 8: Adding Value to Your Data 9. Chapter 9: Performance Tuning with Power BI Dataflows 10. Chapter 10: Implementing Query Diagnostics 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing a diagnostics session

Once you set up the Query Diagnostics options as shown in the previous recipe, you can run a session and see what results you get thanks to this feature. In this recipe, we will perform some transformation steps, and then run a diagnostics session and observe the type of results.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need to download the FactInternetSales CSV file.

In this example, we will refer to the C:\Data folder.

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 select the Text/CSV connector.
  2. Browse to your local folder where you downloaded the FactInternetSales CSV file and open it. A window with a preview of the data will pop up; click on Transform Data.
  3. Browse to the Home tab and click on the Choose Columns button. The Choose Columns window will pop up. Flag the ProductKey, OrderDateKey, SalesTerritoryKey, OrderQuantity, ProductStandardCost...
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