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As a Power Query fan I’m naturally interested in Copilot in Dataflows Gen2. But since Power Query is already very easy to use and since I’m pretty experienced at using it, can Copilot really do ...
As a Power Query fan I’m naturally interested in Copilot in Dataflows Gen2. But since Power Query is already very easy to use and since I’m pretty experienced at using it, can Copilot really do ...
One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...
One of the most confusing, under-documented and widely-misunderstood features of Power BI and Power Query (or Excel “Get & Transform” or whatever you want to call it) are the data privacy settings. I ...
Recently I had a request for help from someone who wanted to do the following in Power Query: take a piece of text and then, using a table, search for all of the occurrences of the words in one column ...
There are hundreds of different methods for generating a Date dimension table for use in Power Pivot: you can use TSQL, Excel formulas, import from the DateStream table in the Windows Azure ...
One very common requirement when creating a Power BI report is the ability to apply a filter for the current day, week, month, quarter or year. There are several ways of implementing this: you could ...
The Web.Contents() function in M is the key to getting data from web pages and web services, and has a number of useful – but badly documented – options that make it easier to construct urls for your ...
In the last two posts in this series I showed how removing columns from the tables used in a Power Query merge operation can improve refresh performance. In this post I’ll show you a different trick ...
There are a lot of articles and blog posts out there on how to handle OAuth2 authentication when connecting to REST APIs from Power Query in Power BI. However there is also a lot of confusion and ...
If you’re working with large amounts of data in Power BI you may find that you have problems because: Your pbix file is very large You spend a long time waiting for refreshes to finish in Power BI ...