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Reading SQL Server Data

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Power BI’s built-in ETL tool, Power Query, is capable of reading data that is stored in a variety of formats into memory, making transformations to the data while in memory, and loading the transformed data into the Power BI data model. It does a great job of doing these types of tasks as it can handle most ETL situations.

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Wade, R. (2020). Reading SQL Server Data. In: Advanced Analytics in Power BI with R and Python. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5829-3_5

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