You are building a Power BI report. The existing query Sales_Data pulls data from a SQL database and applies several transformations. You need a second query that will calculate regional sales totals, derived from Sales_Data.
Requirements:
The new query must leave Sales_Data unchanged.
Changes to Sales_Data (for example, a new column or a modified source) must flow automatically to the new query.
You want to minimize additional queries sent to the SQL database during refresh.
Which action should you use in Power Query to create the new query?
Use Reference. Referencing creates a new query whose single Source step is the result of the parent query, so any edits to Sales_Data automatically cascade. Because no transformation steps are duplicated, maintenance is simpler and Power Query can reuse cached results rather than issuing a completely independent request, helping to avoid unnecessary calls to the SQL source. A Duplicate makes an independent copy that is refreshed separately, while Append and Merge are for combining tables, not branching a query.
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