When you use the UI to import files from SharePoint, you’ll end up with the Sharepoint.Files function. This function can become fairly or super slow when you use it on (…) Read more
Posts Tagged ‘PowerQuery’
Remove repeating characters from a string in Power BI and Power Query
Repeating spaces often cause problems when cleaning up your data. My new function “Text.RemoveRepeatingCharacters” can come to the rescue here. Imagine you have a table like this: Challenge To further work with this (…) Read more
Number.Mod rescue pack for Power BI and Power Query
If you use the M-function Number.Mod in Power BI or Power Query and expect the same result like in Excel or DAX, you are probably in good company. But if (…) Read more
How Power Query can return clickable hyperlinks with friendly names to Excel
When you use Power Query as an Excel-automation-tool rather than just to feed the data model, you might want to return clickable hyperlinks that carry friendly names. This doesn’t work out of (…) Read more
How to open a complex JSON record in Power BI and Power Query
Today I’ll show you a very useful technique how to deal with a JSON record that contains a wild mixture of different elements like this: If you click on one (…) Read more
Tips and Tricks for R scripts in the query editor in Power BI
Especially if you are new to R, there are some things one needs to know to successfully run R-scripts in the query editor of Power BI. I will share them (…) Read more