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Anonymous
5 years agoNot applicable
How to insert external data into local table in Power BI
Dears, I have a data source, which gives daily records. Yet I need to store all these data and analyze it. How could I perform that? I planned to set up a local table in Power BI, and then set up a ...
Jimmy801
5 years agoCommunity Champion
Hello Anonymous
in Power BI/Power Query is no technical solution to this. What you could think of is to Implement your query into Excel and with an automatism to launch a makro that
a) updates your query
b) copies the output of the query into another table
You could use this Excel-sheet for imput in your Power BI
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Jimmy
Anonymous
5 years agoNot applicable
Hi Jimmy, Thanks for your help and deeply sorry for my late reply. Yes, currently we download the report to excel file everyday and put it into a folder, it is just too boring. I'm trying Power BI's "Incremental refresh" function, will share if it is the way to go after get it done. Again, thanks for your help!