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Can the Query Editor make changes to source

Hello Community,

 

I understand that by default the Query Editor in Power BI doesn't make changes to the source data. However, is there a way to get the query editor to also make changes to the source data?

 

Thanks

 

Carlton Patterson

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PattemManohar
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@Anonymous Unfortunately, Power BI is not intended to do any INSERT/UPDATE at source side. You need to do through an ETL process before loading or importing into Power BI for analysing or visualizing the data.





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PattemManohar
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@Anonymous Unfortunately, Power BI is not intended to do any INSERT/UPDATE at source side. You need to do through an ETL process before loading or importing into Power BI for analysing or visualizing the data.





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