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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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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

Chapter 2: Connecting to Fetch Data

One of the main aspects of Power Query is the wide range of data connectors. It offers a varied range of connection options and users can connect to data sources that reside on the cloud, on premises, and in local directories intuitively.

The idea is to treat all data sources at the same level and users (once they select the data they want to transform coming from different sources) can operate and combine them without caring about the data sources' original structure.

In this chapter, there will be an overview of connectors, and we will cover some of the best practices for how to connect to some of the most common connector types.

The recipes that will be covered in this chapter are the following:

  • Getting data and connector navigation
  • Creating a query from files
  • Creating a query from a folder
  • Creating a query from a database
  • Creating a query from a website
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Power Query Cookbook
Published in: Oct 2021
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781800569485
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