You are creating a Power BI data model and have a query named 'BaseSales' that performs 15 transformation steps to clean raw sales data. You need to create two additional tables for analysis: 'SalesByRegion' and 'SalesByProduct'. Both of these tables must start with the cleaned data from 'BaseSales' before having their own specific aggregations applied. You want to ensure that any future modifications to the cleaning steps in 'BaseSales' are automatically inherited by both 'SalesByRegion' and 'SalesByProduct' to minimize maintenance. Which action should you take?
Create two blank queries and merge each of them with the 'BaseSales' query.
Reference the 'BaseSales' query twice to create the two new queries.
Create two blank queries and append the 'BaseSales' query to each of them.
Duplicate the 'BaseSales' query twice to create the two new queries.
The correct action is to reference the 'BaseSales' query. Referencing creates a new query that is linked to the original and uses the output of the source query as its starting point. This means any changes made to the cleaning steps in 'BaseSales' will automatically flow through to 'SalesByRegion' and 'SalesByProduct'. This centralizes the transformation logic, making the model more efficient and easier to maintain.
Duplicating the query would create two new, independent queries. Any changes in 'BaseSales' would not propagate to them, requiring manual updates in three separate places.
Merging and Appending are different operations. Merging is used to join queries column-wise (like a SQL join), and Appending is used to stack queries row-wise.
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