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Data Mashup with Microsoft Excel Using Power Query and M: Finding, Transforming, and Loading Data from External Sources
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Data Mashup with Microsoft Excel Using Power Query and M: Finding, Transforming, and Loading Data from External Sources

by Adam Aspin
July 2020
Beginner to intermediate
404 pages
8h 4m
English
Apress
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© Adam Aspin 2020
A. AspinData Mashup with Microsoft Excel Using Power Query and Mhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6018-0_5

5. Generic Data Sources

Adam Aspin1 
(1)
Stafford, UK
 

If you take a good look at the Get Data options, you will find that there are currently 40 data sources for which Power Query connectors are available. However, even this range of connectors pales into insignificance when faced with the vast array of potential source data repositories. So what can you do when faced with a source of external data that is not among those currently available?

One solution is to use a generic data connector to access data stores that are not directly accessible. To conclude our whistle-stop tour of some of the available source data, then, this ...
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