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Beginning Power BI: A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics with Excel 2016 and Power BI Desktop, Second Edition
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Beginning Power BI: A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics with Excel 2016 and Power BI Desktop, Second Edition

by Dan Clark
February 2017
Beginner
348 pages
7h 46m
English
Apress
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© Dan Clark 2017

Dan Clark, Beginning Power BI, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2577-6_13

13. Advanced Topics in Power Query

Dan Clark1 

(1)Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA

When you build queries using the Power Query designer, the designer creates the query using the M query language. Although you can create robust queries using just the visual interface, there is a lot of useful processing that you can only complete by writing M code. This chapter goes beyond the basics and explores some of the advanced functionality in Power Query, including the M query language, parameters, and functions.

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

  • Write queries with the M query language.

  • Create and use parameters.

  • Create and use functions.

Writing Queries with M

When you build ...

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