Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Power BI Free Training (Power Query for Beginners) Class - 1

Basics of Power Query


In this class, we will learn how to extract data from various sources such as Excel, Text/CSV,  PDF, SQL Server, MS access and from the Web and  apply some basic Column and Row cleaning

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Extract, Pull or Connect to Data Source

This process is the first footsteps, it is a very easy procedure to connect data in Power Query. Just click to a new data source in Power Query. See images below
Steps to connect data source
Get Data
Power query saves the data source as a Query or Command (M language). we can extract more than one query in a report no matter whatever base source is.
and later we can append merge or combine it for desired results.

Combine File Query


Merge (Similar to Joins)
  • Merge Query
  • Merge Query as New

Append (Similar to Union)
  • Append Query
  • Append Query as New

Query Type
  • Query as REFERENCE
  • Query as Duplicate

Transform Data

Manage Column in Power BI

Manage Column
    • Work with column
    • Add Column
    • Remove Columns
    • Concept of other columns
Working on Data Types
    • Text (when no need to calculate)
    • Number (calculation needed)
    • Date 
    • etc.




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