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Can PowerBI completely substitute MS Access?

Can PowerBI substitute completely MS Access as to get rid of it? I use the following features in MS Access. -Query SQL Server, Excel Files, MS Access Data -Create ALL TYPES of queries (filter, dele...
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    vivran22
    6 years ago

    Hello Anonymous ,

     

    MS Access and Power BI are are two applications with two disticnt objectives. While you could use Power Query platform available in Power BI to query your data tables, but you cannot make any changes in the existing data tables. Queries used in Power Query are more of SELECT category. They do not support APPEND or DELETE. You can do UNION & JOIN but that too will only visible in Power BI reports.

     

    Power BI doesn't have any macros feature and cannot send emails from Power BI Desktop.

     

    Cheers!
    Vivek

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6 years ago

Power BI is a read-only app, so it can do all of the below except DELETE, UPDATE, and APPEND (so-called "Action Queries") in Access. It can, IMHO, do all of the read stuff much better than Access. Power Query's UI is so much more powerful than Access. But only Access can actually change data in source files.