Introducing the Power Query M formula language in Power BI
Power Query is a data preparation technology offering from Microsoft to connect to many different data sources from various technologies, enabling businesses to integrate data, transform it, make it available for analysis, and get meaningful insights from it. Power Query can currently connect to many data sources.
It also provides a custom connectors software development kit (SDK) that third parties can use to create their data connectors. Power Query was initially introduced as an Excel add-in that quickly became a vital part of the Microsoft data platform for data preparation and transformation.
Power Query is currently integrated with a few Microsoft products such as Dataverse (also known as Common Data Service (CDS)), SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular models (SSAS Tabular), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Azure Data Factory (ADF), and Azure Analysis Services (AAS), as well as Power BI and Excel. Therefore...
