POWER QUERY AND OLD SCHOOL HARVESTING XML DATA

JULIE SMITH DATA SERVICES CONSULTANT AT INNOVATIVE ARCHITECTS IN ATLANTA, GA ONE HALF OF THE DATACHIX.COM WITH AUDREY HAMMONDS SQL SERVER ALWAYS FORGET TO UPLOAD MY MATERIALS NOT TODAY!

ROB VOLK ROB VOLK IS A DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR FROM THE ATLANTA, GEORGIA AREA BLOGS AT FORMER MVP

TODAY’S AGENDA STORY OF HOW ANNOYED ROB WAS WITH PLANNING SQL SATURDAYS HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY FORAGING FOR DATA—ON SPEAKERS, VENUES, STRANGE COINCIDENCES POWER QUERY –FIRST CAME OUT AS DATA EXPLORER CURL QUERYING XML WITH SQL (TRANSACT SQL TO BE EXACT)

WHAT WOULD WE LIKE TO KNOW? HOW MANY EVENTS? WHERE ARE THEY? SPEAKER DETAILS (MOST SESSIONS/EVENTS/TRAVELED) SPONSOR DETAILS DATES UPCOMING EVENTS IT’S NOT JUST FOR SATURDAYS!

INTRODUCING POWER QUERY RELEASED JULY 2013 EXCEL ADD-IN FOR 2010 OR 2013 SELF SERVICE ETL!!

POWER BI SUITE POWERPIVOT – IN MEMORY EMBEDDED DATA MODELS POWERMAP POWER VIEW – PRESENTATION READY VISUALIZATIONS POWER QUERY ALL IN EXCEL !!!!

POWER BI OFFICE 365 DATA MANAGEMENT GATEWAY COLLABORATE WITH OFFICE 365 SHAREPOINT HELP/POWER-BI-ADMIN-CENTER-HELP-HA ASPX HELP/POWER-BI-ADMIN-CENTER-HELP-HA ASPX

HISTORY M LANGUAGE FOR BUSINESS ANALYSTS PROJECT OSLO DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE M HAS MORPHED INTO THE POWER QUERY FOR EXCEL FORMULA LANGUAGE DOWNLOAD A PDF HERE:

JULIE WHEN SHE FIRST MET POWER QUERY…

IT CAN HARVEST THE FOLLOWING: “OTHER” SHAREPOINT LIST, WINDOWS AZURE MARKETPLACE, ANY HADOOP FILE (HDFS), HDINSIGHT, ACTIVE DIRECTORY, FACEBOOK. EXCHANGE ** NEW RDBMS: SQL SERVER, AZURE SQL SERVER, ACCESS (OOPS), ORACLE, DB2, MYSQL, POSTGRESS, TERADATA FILE: EXCEL, CSV, TXT,, XML, JSON, FOLDER (METADATA) FROM THE INTARWEBZ! WRITE AN M OR POWER QUERY FORMULA LANGUAGE QUERY YOURSELF FROM SCRATCH

SOURCES REGULAR SOURCES—MOST DATABASE PLATFORMS INCLUDING HADOOP FILES—ALL TYPES ODATA WEB SITE TABLES! ACTIVE DIRECTORY!

FUNCTIONS TRANSFORMATION! MERGE (JOIN ON KEY) APPEND—COMBINE SOURCES TO NEW DESTINATION

CREATE YOUR OWN FUNCTION

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USE YOUR OWN FUNCTION

RESOURCES FORMULAS-HA ASPX FORMULA CHEAT SHEET FORMULAS-HA ASPX GREAT POST BY DATAPIG THINGS-YOU-CAN-DO-WITH-DATA-EXPLORER/ THINGS-YOU-CAN-DO-WITH-DATA-EXPLORER/ ON M LANGUAGE: SERVER-MODELING-CTP-REPOSITORY-MODELING-SERVICES-QUOT-QUADRANT-QUOT-AND- QUOT-M-QUOT.ASPX SERVER-MODELING-CTP-REPOSITORY-MODELING-SERVICES-QUOT-QUADRANT-QUOT-AND- QUOT-M-QUOT.ASPX M LANGUAGE SPECS FROM MICROSOFT: US/LIBRARY/DD ASPXHTTP://MSDN.MICROSOFT.COM/EN- US/LIBRARY/DD ASPX DOWNLOADABLE 200 PAGE DOC ON FORMULA LANGUAGE (M)

RESOURCES FROM ROB (MORE RECENT) to-automateparameterizeloop-power-query?forum=powerqueryhttps://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0f9fec c56-92ec-00d46b26b3fc/how- to-automateparameterizeloop-power-query?forum=powerquery HA aspxhttps://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/learn-about-data-explorer-formulas- HA aspx HA aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA HA aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA