Power Query
• Power Query (for data mash-up and transformation)
• Power Query is an (Extract, Transform, Load) Engine in power BI
• Power Query is used to –
• Collect and combine data (merge, join, etc.) from different spots
• Add and remove columns of data
• Add and remove data row
• Reshape data (transposing, pivoting, un-pivoting and other innovative ways)
• Compose equations to manipulation of information
• Publish updated datasets
How to open power query?
There are three way to enter into power query
1. After data connection you can see below window from there select Transpose option
2.
3.
- In filed section go to
more option – select
edit query
Cont.
Power Query is a M formula based language its a case-sensitive developed by Microsoft
• M is informal name of Power Query Formula Language.
• M stands for Data Mashup, some say stands for Data Modeling.
• all the code elements necessary to define a dataset. A let expression is made up of a let statement and an
in statement, as shown in the following syntax:
Few of the data transformation using power query
• First Rows as headers
• Remove column
• Replace the values
• Change data type
• duplicates columns and tables and remove duplicates
• Split Column
• Combine Two columns
• Creating Index column
And many