How To Append Queries In Power Bi

How to Append Queries in Power BI

Appending queries in Power BI is a useful feature that allows you to combine multiple queries together to create a single query with all the relevant data. This can be done by following these steps:

1. Open Power BI Desktop and load the data sources you want to append together as separate queries.
2. Click on the “Edit Queries” button on the Home tab to open the Query Editor.
3. In the Query Editor, select the first query that you want to append another query to.
4. Right-click on the selected query and choose the “Append Queries” option from the context menu.
5. A new window will open, showing all the available queries that can be appended. Select the query you want to append and click on the “OK” button.
6. The two queries will now be appended together, creating a single query with combined data.
7. You can repeat these steps to append more queries if needed.
8. Once you have appended all the necessary queries, click on the “Close & Apply” button to apply the changes and load the appended query into Power BI.

Here is an example to clarify how appending queries work:

Let’s say you have two queries, “Sales” and “Expenses”. The “Sales” query contains sales data for different products, while the “Expenses” query contains expense data for the same products. By appending these queries, you can create a new query that combines both the sales and expense data into a single query.

After following the above steps, you will have a new query that includes both the sales and expense data. This appended query can be used to create visualizations and analyze the combined data in Power BI.