The Magic of working with Records in Power Query - Goodly
In this blog we will learn about What is a Record, Extracting Records from a Table, Creating Records from Scratch. Also, there are two practical Examples of using Records that might be helpful in many different ways!
Engineering Data Extracted from the Web Using Power Query - Bradley Sawler
Have you ever wanted to extract information from a web page to use in a calculation, or as a reference for something else you may be working on? I have used similar functions in the past (pre Power …
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Calling The Power BI REST API From TSQL In Azure SQL DB
Something cool has just been announced for Azure SQL DB: the ability to call a limited number of REST APIs direct from TSQL. The announcement is here: There are code samples here: And guess what, t…
Chris Webb's BI Blog: How Much Data Can You Load Into Power BI?
Power BI can handle large data volumes, but just how much data can you load into Power BI? Can Power BI handle big data? How big is “big” anyway? These are questions you may have when y…
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Web.Contents, Text Concatenation And Dataset Refresh Errors In Power BI/Power Query
One of the most popular topics I’ve ever written about here is the dataset refresh errors you get with dynamic data sources and the Web.Contents function in Power BI (see here and here for ex…
This content applies to: Power Query online Power Query desktop You may have noticed a new M function was added to Power Query recently: Web.Headers. This function allows you to make HEAD requests to web services – the existing Web.Contents function, which it resembles closely, only allows you to make GET and POST requests. You […]
New MSFT Guidance: Power BI for Dataverse. - I've documented the keys to performance and usability with #PowerBI reporting over Dynamics 365 CE or Model-Driven... 20 comments on LinkedIn
The October release of PowerBI Desktop introduced a very interesting feature, Top N filtered is pushed down for Direct Query Sources, I thought I may give it a try and blog about it, for some reaso…
Dynamically Passing Parameters to a SQL Stored Procedure in Excel 365 Using Power Query - BI Insight
In September 2014, I wrote a blog post on dynamically passing parameters from PowerPivot to a SQL Server stored procedure using VBA. Back then, VBA was a real lifesaver. It perhaps still is for many of us. But frankly, I even forgot how to write VBA. Maybe it is time to look at it again. … Continue reading Dynamically Passing Parameters to a SQL Stored Procedure in Excel 365 Using Power Query