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Microsoft Power BI Power Queries 

 

This one day course offers a thorough overview of Power Query concepts and tools, including data transformation and relational databases. You'll learn to create reports from multiple tables, understand primary and foreign keys, and explore different types of relationships and joins. The course covers data shaping techniques such as filtering, sorting, and formatting, as well as transforming data through splitting, merging, and cleaning. You'll also delve into adding custom columns using M language, creating and storing queries, and linking queries to Excel worksheets for live updates. This course equips you with the skills to efficiently manage and transform data using Power Query.

A basic understanding of Power BI either having completed the level 1 course or a knowledge of the topics.
  • Understand relational databases and multiple data sources
  • Use Excel’s Power data tools to manipulate data
  • Create powerful and professional reports

Introduction to Power Query

  • Query concepts
  • Get & Transform data
  • Queries & Connections
  • Data tools
  • Launching the Power Query Editor

Introduction to Relational databases

  • Creating reports from multiple tables / data sources
  • Primary & foreign keys
  • Types of relationship- one-many, many-many
  • Types of join- Inner, Outer

Shaping data

  • Filter / sort / group
  • Formatting / converting data type
  • Show / hiding columns
  • Replacing text / values / missing & Null values
  • Transpose

Transforming data

  • Splitting / merging columns
  • Concatenation
  • Extracting data
  • Delimiting data
  • Trimming and cleaning
  • Adding prefix / suffix
  • Creating calculated fields
  • Un-pivoting
  • Filter for errors

 

Adding Columns

  • Custom columns using M language
  • Conditional columns
  • From text
  • From Number
  • From Date

 

Creating & Storing Queries

  • Simple queries
  • Advanced combined queries
  • Merge multiple tables
  • Append from multiple sources
  • Understanding query / applied steps
  • Table links and relationships
  • Adding a query to a data model
  • Loading a query to Excel worksheet
  • Refreshing / updating data
  • Live link to cloud
Prices below are for scheduled courses held in our Edinburgh Training Centre or Live Virtual Classroom. Major discounts available for onsite or private courses: click General Enquiry button below to enquire about private courses.
Group discount
1 place £ 350 n/a
2 places £ 700 n/a
3 places £ 1050 £ 956
4 places £ 1400 £ 1260
5 places £ 1750 £ 1558
6 places £ 2100 £ 1848
7 places £ 2450 £ 2132
8 places £ 2800 £ 2408