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Displaying Azure Maps In A Power BI Paginated Report
The built-in mapping functionality in Power BI paginated reports is fairly basic. However the integration of Power Query into Power BI paginated reports gives you an interesting new way of creating...
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New Semi Join, Anti Join And Query Folding Functionality In Power Query
There are a couple of nice new features to do with table joins (or merges as they are known in M) and query folding in Power Query in the April release of Power BI Desktop that I want to highlight....
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Power BI/Data Books Roundup
It’s time for another short post on the free books that various authors have been kind enough to send me over the last few months. Full disclosure: these aren’t reviews as such, they’re more like free...
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Module.Versions Function In Power Query
The ever-vigilant folks on the internet have spotted that there’s a new M function in the latest versions of Power BI and Excel: Module.Versions. This function, at the time of writing, returns a...
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The “DataFormat.Error: File contains corrupted data” Error In Power Query
When you’re using Excel workbooks as a data source in Power Query in either Excel or Power BI you may encounter the following error when trying to connect: DataFormat.Error: File contains corrupted...
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Improve Power Query Performance On CSV Files Containing Date Columns
A few weeks ago I replied to a question on reddit where someone was experiencing extremely slow performance when importing data from a CSV file using Power Query. The original poster worked out the...
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Reading Delta Metadata In Power Query
There’s a new M function rolling out now that allows you to read metadata from Delta tables (at the time of writing it’s available in Dataflows Gen2 and will be available soon in Desktop). It builds...
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Using Excel Copilot To Import Data With Power Query
Although it was announced in this blog post on the Microsoft 365 Insider blog recently, you might have missed the news that Excel Copilot can now generate Power Query queries. There are limitations...
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Two New Power BI/Power Query Books
It’s time for another one of my occasional posts about free books that I’ve been given that you might be interested to check out. The usual disclaimers apply: these aren’t impartial, detailed reviews...
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Generating Sample Data With Copilot In Fabric Dataflows Gen2
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...
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