Accessing records from tables, items from lists, and values from records are fundamental to M query development. In the following example, the results of the BI.vDim_Account SQL view are returned to Power BI using slightly different M syntax than the customer dimension query from the previous section:
let Source = AdWorksSQLServer, AccountRecord = Source{[Name = "BI.vDim_Account"]}, Account = AccountRecord[Data]in Account
For this query, a record is retrieved from the AdWorksSQLServer staging query based only on the Name column. The Data field of this record is then accessed in a separate variable (Account) to return the results of the BI.vDim_Account SQL view to Power BI. BI teams or the dataset designer can decide on a ...
