Master Data Analysis Without T-SQL: A Guide to Microsoft Fabric Visual Queries
Unlock the power of Microsoft Fabric Visual Queries — your no-code solution to complex data analysis. This guide explores how to effortlessly create, analyze, and share data insights without needing to learn T-SQL, making data analytics accessible to all professionals.
The ability to quickly and efficiently analyze data is essential for businesses to stay competitive in the field of data analytics. However not everyone is an expert in SQL, and for many, creating complicated queries can be a difficult undertaking.
Microsoft Fabric Visual Queries is a tool for anyone stuck at a T-SQL crossroads. Without writing a single line of code, users can create and analyze data using this feature of Microsoft Fabric.
Simplifying Data Analysis with Visual Queries
Microsoft Fabric is an enterprise-focused all-in-one analytics solution that handles data movement, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence. It provides an all-inclusive range of services, such as data integration, data engineering, and data lakes, in one location. This makes it unnecessary to piece together various services from various vendors, providing a highly integrated, comprehensive, and user-friendly solution that streamlines analytics requirements.
The ability to do visual queries is one of Microsoft Fabric’s amazing features. This eliminates the need for users to write SQL code by enabling them to create queries via a graphical interface. Users can write queries against the data in their warehouse quickly and effectively by dragging and dropping tables, applying transformations, joining data, grouping by columns, and saving query results as views or tables in the Microsoft Fabric visual query editor.
How Visual Queries Work
Using the visual editor in Microsoft Fabric to create a query is simple and intuitive.
Inside your Fabric Warehouse, you have the option to open a new SQL Query Window and a Visual Query Window, that´s the one!
By dragging and dropping tables from the object explorer, you can begin crafting your queries using the visual query editor that is accessible through the Microsoft Fabric portal.
Now you can apply different data transformations, including data sorting, filtering, aggregation, and merging.
Columns and rows transformations:
Order and group data:
Merge data:
The step by step to apply these steps is very similar to Power Query and Data Flows.
Additionally, users can explore their data more interactively thanks to the data preview and visualization results features.
Visual Results
Here you can open your query in a PowerBI report and mount visuals on your data. Also, you can save that report and share it with your colleagues.
Download Excel File
You have the option to download an excel file that will have a connection directly to your server and query. This way you can share the data with every user that has access to the source.
Save as Table
Finally, you can save the result of your visual query as a table on your Warehouse, that way you create a snapshot of the data.
View SQL Query
Another interesting option is that you can look at the SQL code that is being generated behind the curtains while you are building your no-code query.
You will notice that the SQL code is different from what you are used to but this is the way that engine has to build the query.
Now, you can take full advantage of the potential that comes with using data as it eliminates the need for SQL queries to create and analyze data.
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