Power Query Editor in Power BI for Formatting Text Columns
This article looks at ways to clean up text data used in Power BI reports and charts for a more meaningful and consistent message.
2023-10-27
Power Query
Getting Started with Power Query M Language in Excel
This article introduces M language concepts and examples of using M to manipulate data in Excel.
2023-10-02
Using Power Query to Combine Data from Multiple Sheets in Excel
This article employs Power Query features to combine queries and implement requirements in different listed scenarios.
2023-08-07
Why Power Query as an Activity in Azure Data Factory and SSIS?
There is a Power Query activity in SSIS and Azure Data Factory, which can be more useful than other tasks in some situations.
2021-07-26
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Common Data Transformations in Power Query
In this article we walk through an example of using Power Query to transform source data that can be used in a Power BI report.
2021-04-21
Power Query or SQL Server? Which, when and why
When it comes to developing a Power BI report, we can use it for accessing data, transforming the data, and turning the data into information using visuals. With no doubt Power BI can do the job from beginning to end. Now, this is not the only, nor necessarily the best, tool for all the steps […]
2021-01-25
16,634 reads
Create Custom Functions in Power Query
Introduction Often at times, you may come across situations where you need to calculate a column repeatedly multiple times in the same Power BI report or across multiple reports. Although you can use the calculated columns to some extent, these are not robust and not reusable. In order to reuse the same piece of code, […]
2020-04-21
40,605 reads
Iterating Over Calculated Tables using Power Query
Problem Many of us are already aware of the loopin...
2020-04-07
8,386 reads
Retrieve file sizes from the file system using Power Query
Koen Verbeeck shows how to easily extract metadata from files in your directories with Power Query.
2015-09-23
3,175 reads
Query Folding in Power Query to Improve Performance
In this tip Koen Verbeeck discusses query folding, how you can take advantage from it and how to make sure query folding takes place.
2015-06-03
3,661 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #179: The Detective’s Toolkit
By Steve Jones
It’s time for the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. This month a longtime friend,...
Moving T-SQL Tuesday to Jekyll
By Steve Jones
I got a message a few months back that Microsoft was deprecating the MySQL...
European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference announcements
By James Serra
A TON of new features announcements at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference help...
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Azure SQL DB CLR
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Steps to restore database which is part of Trans replication and Allwayson db
We have a Setup where replication and AG is configured as below. Servers:Node1,Node2 ==>Node1...
An error occurred while skipping data rows
I am trying to build an ETL for an Existing Table. The ETL (SSIS)...
Question of the Day
Data Migration Assistant Targets
In the current (2024) version of the Data Migration Assistant, which on-premises targets are available?
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