Comparing Groups for Similarities in Power Query – Using Cosine Similarity
Recently, my skills were put to the test when I needed to compare hundreds of Active Directory and SharePoint Groups to find similarities in their memberships.
2025-01-10
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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
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
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Iterating Over Calculated Tables using Power Query
Problem Many of us are already aware of the loopin...
2020-04-07
8,492 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
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Getting the TEXTSIZE
How can I check what value I used for TEXTSIZE? I ran this code:
SET TEXTSIZE 8096But then deleted the code and couldn't remember. Is there a way to check this? See possible answers