From the course: Power BI Data Methods (2019)
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Introducing table objects
- [Instructor] We define a programming object as a particular instance of a class with a combination of variables, functions, and data structures. In Power BI, Power Query Editor objects include tables, lists, records, values, binaries, functions, errors, and parameters. We rarely use binaries, functions, lists, and records by themselves but instead combined with other objects, like table objects. In the U.S. Census Power BI file we set up earlier, let's go back to the Excel connection in the web, and let's go to the Query Editor Source step. When we set up this connection, remember that we selected for Power BI to drill automatically into this third table here. It drills into the table and it used this as our query. You click on the Navigation step, we can see that it selected that item as the table object that we wanted to drill into. Let's go back to the Source step, and we're going to duplicate this query and I'm…
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