Automation of Schema Creation in Power BI

[Anonymous]

Can we read the table names from SQL query and then pull those tables from DB2 to Power BI to automate the process of schema creation?

Is it possible to get the table names from a sql query(sql script in notepad) and then search for those tables in DB2 database and pull those tables to Power BI?

Please guide on this.

[MFelix]

Hi @Anonymous ,

To what I can understand you have the SQL query stored in a file and you want to run that query dinamically on your PBI correct?

Try the following code:

let
    SQLCode ={ Text.FromBinary(File.Contents("C:\Folderpathlocation\SELECT.SQL"))}{0},
    Source = Sql.Database("SQLServer", "DatabaseName", [Query=SQLCode])
in
    Source

The SQLCode line gets the information from the CSV extract the SQL query and runs it on the last part of the Source step [Query=SQLCode]