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sixsid0
Jun 06, 2022Copper Contributor
Setting up power query for an existing table
May I seek the community's advice on how to set up Power Query for an existing table in a data model? I'm quite new to this and all tutorials guide you to start from scratch. The table has bee...
SergeiBaklan
Jun 06, 2022Diamond Contributor
Not sure I understood the logic. In general Power Query is just structured data source for the data model. You may query as many tables as needed, includes one from another files, combine them and load to data model. Here add DAX measures and calculated columns (better to avoid them, in majority of cases only measures is enough) and aggregate results into PivotTables. Alternatively you may aggregate with Power Query and return result as structured table. With that only Refresh All is required.
- sixsid0Jun 06, 2022Copper ContributorThanks. I'm just asking how to set up the Power Query so that the data loads into the existing table that I have (keeping measures and calculated columns intact) instead of loading as a new table.