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Hi All,
I am fairly new to PowerBI, and I am helping recreate reports that have been living in Excel for 10 years. They currently pull the data from an Access database that has multiple queries to merge tables. I was wondering if I should link PowerBI to those already merged queried tables in Access or should I recreate the merges within PowerBI?
Hi @ccp118 ,
According to your statement, I think your issue should be that you want to know get data from access database or get data from excel and recreate your tables.
As far as I know, the connection mode from Access Database should be import.
For reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/access-database
It is the same as get data from excel, if getting the data from the access database makes your operation easier, I recommend that you get the data from the access database.
Best Regards,
Rico Zhou
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