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Power Query Cookbook
Power Query Cookbook

Power Query Cookbook: Use effective and powerful queries in Power BI Desktop and Dataflows to prepare and transform your data

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Key benefits

  • Collect, combine, and transform data using Power Query's data connectivity and data preparation features
  • Overcome the problems faced while accessing data from multiple sources and reshape it to meet your business requirements
  • Explore how the M language can be used to write your own customized solutions

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Power Query is a data preparation tool that enables data engineers and business users to connect, reshape, enrich, and transform their data to facilitate relevant business insights and analysis. With Power Query's wide range of features, you can perform no-code transformations and complex M code functions at the same time to get the most out of your data. This Power Query book will help you to connect to data sources, achieve intuitive transformations, and get to grips with preparation practices. Starting with a general overview of Power Query and what it can do, the book advances to cover more complex topics such as M code and performance optimization. You'll learn how to extend these capabilities by gradually stepping away from the Power Query GUI and into the M programming language. Additionally, the book also shows you how to use Power Query Online within Power BI Dataflows. By the end of the book, you'll be able to leverage your source data, understand your data better, and enrich it with a full stack of no-code and custom features that you'll learn to design by yourself for your business requirements.

Who is this book for?

This book is for data analysts, BI developers, data engineers, and anyone looking for a desk reference guide to learn how Power Query can be used with different Microsoft products to handle data of varying complexity. Beginner-level knowledge of Power BI and the M Language will help you to get the best out of this book.

What you will learn

  • Understand how to use Power Query to connect and explore data
  • Explore ways to reshape and enrich data
  • Discover the potential of Power Query across the Microsoft platform
  • Build complex and custom transformations
  • Use M code to write new queries against data sources
  • Use the Power Query Online tool within Power BI Dataflows
  • Implement best practices such as reusing dataflows, optimizing expanding table operations, and field mapping

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Patrick Borosch Oct 16, 2021
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Gleich vorweg: ich kenne die Autorin und arbeite mit ihr zusammen.Das Buch enthält Mini-Projekte, sog. "Rezepte" für alle Bereiche, mit denen man als Power BI / Power Query-Entwickler*innen im täglichen Leben konfrontiert wird. Als Leser*in bekommt man im Rezept zunächst alle notwendigen "Zutaten" (technische Anforderungen/Voraussetzungen) präsentiert und kann dann direkt an die Umsetzung gehen. Diese Strukturierung erlaubt es auch erfahreneren Lesern*innen flexibel zu den fortgeschritteneren Themen zu springen, da die Kapitel voneinander unabhängig gestaltet sind.Auch Fortgeschrittene PowerBI / PowerQuery-Entwickler*innen werden von diesem Buch profitieren. Andrea konzentriert sich auf das Notwendige und lässt die Schnörkel aus. Damit kann man ein Thema schnell erfassen und umsetzen.Aus meiner Sicht ist das Buch definitiv eine Referenz für alle, die sich mit dem Thema Power Query beschäftigen. Es hilft Anfängern*innen und Fortgeschrittenen gleichermaßen und sollte in jedem Regal stehen, wo mit Power BI, Synapse Pipelines und Azure Data Factory gearbeitet wird.
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Chris Wagner Oct 19, 2021
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The Power Query Cookbook is FIRE for anyone looking to learn more about working with data and Power BI.This book starts you off with the basics of Power Query but then works your way into advanced topics. Anyone working with Power BI should have a copy of this book on their bookshelf.
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Kristian B. Oct 15, 2021
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I had the opportunity to sneak peek into Andrea Janicijevic's book "Power Query Cookbook" published by Packt and it's amazing! If you're wondering how #PowerQuery works, how to use it to transfer and modify your #Data, this is a must read! Starting with #PowerBI and #PowerQuery? Using #Excel and want to enhance your skills with #PowerQuery? Go and get this book!
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JT Moeller Oct 15, 2021
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Power Query Cookbook is an excellent introduction to Power Query. The Cookbook format presents individual concepts through small projects, or Recipes. Instead of following a traditional textbook format, where a few projects are followed from the beginning of the book to the end, in this book each Recipe is atomic, meaning each can be followed individually without having to lead specific versions of files created along the way. Every project lists the software, framework, OS, and memory requirements for the project, so learners will never find out in the middle of a project that they need a Pro or Premium license to perform specific tasks.The Cookbook format is conducive to learning concepts individually, as well as chaining them together. It is also excellent as a reference, since each Recipe can be reworked without relying on files modified in earlier portions of the book.The book starts from bare bones installation, moves through connecting to common data sources, exploring data through the UI, shaping and combining data, and finishes off with more advanced concepts such as query optimization (both through use of the UI and diagnostics), custom columns and functions, and the use of dataflows.The Advanced Editor and the M code is introduced in the first chapter, and throughout the book. This is a refreshing change from most books, which relegate it to the end if they mention it at all. There is also a plethora of pictures, almost every menu selection is shown, which makes it possible to follow along even when away from your computer.For myself this book was a great refresher on basic Power Query concepts, and I learned some new advanced concepts I had not seen before and will likely use the next time I'm bringing in data to Power BI. One such example is the use of Clustering match strength to clean data.
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michael mitchell Nov 09, 2021
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When I learn about Power Query, I prefer watching video training on the subject matter, however, the author does a wonderful job adding the description with stunning visuals on data transformations in Power Query. The author walks the user through make data connections to your external files or data sources. The author also shows users how to setup gateway connections. Power Query data reshaping is best performed on the program, however the graphics in the book also gives the user great instruction of the reshaping procedures.My favorite chapter of the book was Combining Queries for Efficiency working with Merging Queries with table joins and appending tables. Advance Power Query users can also gain valuable insights on the last six chapters in this book. M-Language, Power Query Performance, and Data Flows give advanced users insights into these complex subject matter.I would recommend this book to Power BI, Power BI Pro, & Get Data users in EXCEL. The author covers intermediate and advanced topics on the subject matter.
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