When it comes to developing a Power BI report, we can use it for accessing data, transforming the data, and turning the data into information using visuals. With no doubt Power BI can do the job from beginning to end. Now, this is not the only, nor necessarily the best, tool for all the steps of a report. At different stages, you might ask, Power Query or SQL Server? The big questions are which one to use, when, and why?
In this article I want to compare four scenarios using Power Query and SQL Server. We’ll go from only using