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6 years ago

Power BI merge table or Cube ?

Hello,

 

i'm an IT Student and i'm facing a problem with a task for my internship.

Let me explain the context

 

I have 2 databases that contain tables without any relationship between them.
-The first one (named DB_1) contains tables with the same architecture.
For example

Table A

IDSiteNameDateTimeLabelValue
112Dubil22/05/2019 8:52:41Load weight (kg)51
110Dubil21/05/2019 15:08:37Load weight (kg)98

 

Table B

IDSiteNameDateTimeLabelValue
587Liest22/05/2019 8:52:41Load weight (kg)51
576Liest21/05/2019 15:08:37Load weight (kg)98

 

90% of my DB_1 is composed of table like that.

 

From these tables I would like to take measures from them.

 

The remaining 10% need to be merged with some tables from second database (DB_2), because it's contains informations that needed in DB_2 for measures.

But first of all i have to combine, merge ... the tables.

However I have a lot of tables like the two above (about 200 +).

 

And then combined two tables from different databes seems a bit of sci-fi for me.

 

Instead of extract one table by one table, transform them (some column to remove), and load it would take me months. I believe there is a best way to do it.

So I'm wondering if I should not make a Cube (SSAS) in this case, because I intend to extract each of the tables and put them in a single report.


Do Power BI can create a cube ? Or do i need it before in SQL Server or Visual Studio for exemple ?
Any tips, advise and links are appreciated.

 

Feel free to ask for more explanation.

PS : Sorry for the little edit, i forgot to talk about the  2nd DB 😞

 

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