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
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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
40,833 reads
Iterating Over Calculated Tables using Power Query
Problem Many of us are already aware of the loopin...
2020-04-07
8,414 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 #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers