1. Power Query Tips & Tricks
Rushabh Mehta, Founder & President

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4. About Me (@rushabhmehta)
Founder & President, Matchbook Services
20+ Years implementing Microsoft BI and Analytical solutions
Principal Architect, SolidQ
Community
Past President, Professional Association for SQL Server
Microsoft Data Platform MVP (11 years)
Melissa Data MVP
Dun & Bradstreet MVP

5. Agenda
Intro to PowerQuery
Tips & Tricks
Q&A

6. Intro to Power Query
Add-in for Microsoft Excel and part of Power BI to Query and transform data
Access to a variety of sources
Primary audience is end users of the data
Enables self-service data discovery and modeling for reporting and analytics
Captures history of transformations
Point-in-time view of data being modeled
Range of transformations to model, shape and transform your data
Powerful M language support for advanced customization

7. Demo
Power Query Basics

8. Tips & Tricks
Rename query and steps for better visibility and code management
Enable the formula bar
Remove columns no longer required
Consider splitting datetime columns into 2 columns (Date and Time)
Query append allows you to “Union” 2 data sets
Can use it to parse JSON
Change datatype of Date column to Date

9. Demo
Power Query Tips & Tricks

10. References
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11. Fun Links for Data
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12. Q&A rmehta@matchbookservices.com / rmehta@sqlpass.org @rushabhmehta