Power Query can discover and import data from websites. Often data warehouses rely on external data which is readily available in public websites for e.g. public holidays, school holidays, daylight savings, SIC codes, SWIFT codes, post codes etc. Power Query is perfectly suitable for such situations. Power Query can discover, fetch and transform data from a HTML table in a web page into a format that can be easily imported into data warehouses using SSIS package. It’s like an ETL tool for the web page data source.
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