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Jocie
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3 years ago
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Reference vs Duplicate tables in Power Query, Power BI

Hi Everyone,   I have a weird situation in the tables in Power BI.  There is a big parent table that gets loaded into Power BI from SQL Server.  Once it is loaded into Power BI, multiple subsets ge...
  • amitchandak's avatar
    3 years ago

    Jocie , If you want to create a reference, do not do a change in the original script.

    It should be like

    Base Table

    Created D1,D2, D3

    Created a Fact Using Base Table, D1, D2, D3 using merge as new.

     

    If you want to change something to base, then before any change duplicate else you will have all the steps, when you copy.

     

    I would prefer the first approach. not to disturb the base table