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ThomasDay
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10 years ago
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append connection only queries

Each quarter, CMS publishes new financial data for hospitals.  The reports correctly stack up to each other--so it's an ideal append situation.  They are reasonably large (20mm rows per year and thre...
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    pqian
    10 years ago

    ThomasDay actually, making one query per data set is an acceptable solution, you can consider these tables "backing queries" and choose not to load them (right click -> uncheck Loaded to report). You can even organize them into a folder for browsing needs.

     

    Then, you can have one master query that uses Table.Combine() for all these backing queries, and load that one to the report.

    This is probably the easist solution as you don't have to write a single line of M code.

     

    Now, if you want to do all of this in one query, you are going to have to write something. Starting from your query:

     

    let
    Source1 = Csv.Document(File.Contents("C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\FTRatings\FTRatingsData-Models\DataLoadToPrimaryModelFile\HOSP10_2014_RPT.CSV"),[Delimiter=",", Encoding=1252]),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(Source1, {{"Column1", "ReptRecNo"}, {"Column2", "CtrlType(2)"}, {"Column3", "ProvdrNo"}, {"Column4", "NPI"}, {"Column5", "ReptStatus(1)"}, {"Column6", "FYBeginDt"}, {"Column7", "FYEndDt"}}),
    #"Renamed Columns1" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Renamed Columns",{{"Column8", "HCRISDt"}}),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Renamed Columns1",{"ReptRecNo", "CtrlType(2)", "ProvdrNo", "FYBeginDt", "FYEndDt", "HCRISDt"}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Removed Other Columns",{{"ProvdrNo", Int64.Type}, {"FYBeginDt", type date}, {"FYEndDt", type date}, {"HCRISDt", type date}, {"ReptRecNo", Int64.Type}})
    in
    #"Changed Type1"

    Let's parameterize the CSV path:

    let
    GetData = (path) => let
    Source1 = Csv.Document(File.Contents(path),[Delimiter=",", Encoding=1252]),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(Source1, {{"Column1", "ReptRecNo"}, {"Column2", "CtrlType(2)"}, {"Column3", "ProvdrNo"}, {"Column4", "NPI"}, {"Column5", "ReptStatus(1)"}, {"Column6", "FYBeginDt"}, {"Column7", "FYEndDt"}}),
    #"Renamed Columns1" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Renamed Columns",{{"Column8", "HCRISDt"}}),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Renamed Columns1",{"ReptRecNo", "CtrlType(2)", "ProvdrNo", "FYBeginDt", "FYEndDt", "HCRISDt"}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Removed Other Columns",{{"ProvdrNo", Int64.Type}, {"FYBeginDt", type date}, {"FYEndDt", type date}, {"HCRISDt", type date}, {"ReptRecNo", Int64.Type}})
    in
    #"Changed Type1",
    FY14 = GetData("C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\FTRatings\FTRatingsData-Models\DataLoadToPrimaryModelFile\HOSP10_2014_RPT.CSV")
    in
    FY14

    Then add FY15, FY16, etc:

     

    let
      GetData = (path) => let
        Source1 = Csv.Document(File.Contents(path),[Delimiter=",", Encoding=1252]),
        #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(Source1, {{"Column1", "ReptRecNo"}, {"Column2", "CtrlType(2)"}, {"Column3", "ProvdrNo"}, {"Column4", "NPI"}, {"Column5", "ReptStatus(1)"}, {"Column6", "FYBeginDt"}, {"Column7", "FYEndDt"}}),
        #"Renamed Columns1" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Renamed Columns",{{"Column8", "HCRISDt"}}),
        #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Renamed Columns1",{"ReptRecNo", "CtrlType(2)", "ProvdrNo", "FYBeginDt", "FYEndDt", "HCRISDt"}),
        #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Removed Other Columns",{{"ProvdrNo", Int64.Type}, {"FYBeginDt", type date}, {"FYEndDt", type date}, {"HCRISDt", type date}, {"ReptRecNo", Int64.Type}})
      in
        #"Changed Type1",
      FY14 = GetData("C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\FTRatings\FTRatingsData-Models\DataLoadToPrimaryModelFile\HOSP10_2014_RPT.CSV"),
      FY15 = GetData("C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\FTRatings\FTRatingsData-Models\DataLoadToPrimaryModelFile\HOSP10_2015_RPT.CSV"),
      FY16 = GetData("C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\FTRatings\FTRatingsData-Models\DataLoadToPrimaryModelFile\HOSP10_2016_RPT.CSV")
      ...
    
    in
      FY16 

    Then combine them into the final result

    let
      GetData = (path) => let
        Source1 = Csv.Document(File.Contents(path),[Delimiter=",", Encoding=1252]),
        #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(Source1, {{"Column1", "ReptRecNo"}, {"Column2", "CtrlType(2)"}, {"Column3", "ProvdrNo"}, {"Column4", "NPI"}, {"Column5", "ReptStatus(1)"}, {"Column6", "FYBeginDt"}, {"Column7", "FYEndDt"}}),
        #"Renamed Columns1" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Renamed Columns",{{"Column8", "HCRISDt"}}),
        #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Renamed Columns1",{"ReptRecNo", "CtrlType(2)", "ProvdrNo", "FYBeginDt", "FYEndDt", "HCRISDt"}),
        #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Removed Other Columns",{{"ProvdrNo", Int64.Type}, {"FYBeginDt", type date}, {"FYEndDt", type date}, {"HCRISDt", type date}, {"ReptRecNo", Int64.Type}})
      in
        #"Changed Type1",
      FY14 = GetData("C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\FTRatings\FTRatingsData-Models\DataLoadToPrimaryModelFile\HOSP10_2014_RPT.CSV"),
      FY15 = GetData("C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\FTRatings\FTRatingsData-Models\DataLoadToPrimaryModelFile\HOSP10_2015_RPT.CSV"),
      FY16 = GetData("C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\FTRatings\FTRatingsData-Models\DataLoadToPrimaryModelFile\HOSP10_2016_RPT.CSV")
      Combine = Table.Combine({ FY14, FY15, FY16, ... })
    in
      Combine

    You can even dynamically generate the FY** list and have it respond to a file system change, and automatically pick up new CSV files in a folder.

     

    (ps., i haven't tested the queries above, so there maybe syntax errors, but you get the idea)

     

    Regards,

    PQ