My post earlier this year on enabling query folding when using SQL queries as a data source in Power Query provoked a lot of interest. This post adds one more useful detail: how to preserve the ...

A few months ago a new option was added to the Sql.Database and Sql.Databases functions in Power Query in Power BI and Excel which allows Power Query queries that combine data from different SQL ...

Learn how to optimize SQL queries for business intelligence (BI) by following some best practices and techniques that can improve the speed, accuracy, and quality of your data analysis.

Open Power BI Desktop. Go to Home > Get Data > SQL Server. Fill in: Server: YOUR_SERVER_NAME (e.g., localhost\MSSQLSERVER01) Database: leave blank or enter master; Expand Advanced options. Paste the ...

Unlike Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI doesn’t have the ability to build custom sorts. However, you can sort one column by another, which is effectively the same thing and easy to implement.

Data Cleaning & Transformation: Raw data is cleaned and standardized using Power Query and Excel to ensure accuracy and consistency. Data Analysis: SQL is utilized to query and aggregate data, ...

A Toronto-based business intelligence ... president of SQL Power Group Inc. ... Eventually, users might transition to running queries themselves, ...