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‘DIY BI’ e-Book Launches Tomorrow!
Last week I announced that we are working on a series of free 'DIY BI' e-Books. We've been hard at work on polishing it up, and I'm pleased to announce that the first DIY BI e-Book launches tomorrow!...
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Create Column From Examples
I knew that the create Column From Examples feature had been released to Power BI Desktop, but it just showed up in my Excel 2016 build today. And man is it cool! A scenario for Create Column From...
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Protect Power Queries
How you protect power queries is a question that will come up after you've built a solution that relies heavily on Power Query, especially if you're going to release it to other users. (This is a quick...
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As of June 1, 2017, there is a Power BI licensing change coming… The quick summary is that Power BI free is going to gain the ability to automate refresh via a personal gateway, but will lose the...
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Adding null to values returns null
Today a user brought up something in the forums I've seen before; adding null to values returns null. Simply put, they wanted to add the values in two columns together, but didn't get the results they...
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Reduce Development Lag
How we reduce development lag when building queries in Power Query is a question that came up in my blog post at PowerPivotPro last week, even though that wasn't the main issue. I thought it might be...
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Merge Files With Different Column Headers
A client contacted me today asking how to merge files with different column headers in Power Query. The issue she's facing is that some of the files in her folder have a column called "customer",...
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Data types vs formats
One of the common questions I get in live courses, blog comments and forum posts is a variant of, “How do I format my data in Power Query or Power BI?” The short answer is that you don’t, but the...
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Unpivoting SubCategories
Ages ago I posted an article on unpivoting subcategories using Power Query. The technique is still valid and, in fact, it’s one that I still teach using the same data set. I’ve been able to use it on...
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Adding Try Results is Trying
I was playing around with a scenario this morning where I was adding try results together in order to count how many columns were filled with information. What I needed to do kind of surprised me a...
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Extract Data Based on the Previous Row
This is a cool example of how to Extract Data Based on the Previous Row, which came up as a viewer's question inside our Power Query Academy. Let's look at how we solved it… What Kind of Data Needs...
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Unlock Excel Conference
Unlock Excel Returns to Australia and New Zealand We're really excited that Ken is going to be heading back "down under" this April for CPA Australia's Unlock Excel conference. Spending two days in...
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Return a Specific Day of the Next Month
In a comment on a previous post, a reader asked how you return a specific day of the next month from any given date. In other words, I've got a date of March 5 and I want to use Power Query to return...
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Challenge – Top x with Ties
Yesterday I was working on a data set, and needed to work out the Top x with Ties in Power Query. This posed to be a bit more challenging than I first thought it would be. Why did I want Top x With...
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Results: Top X with Ties Challenge
Last week I posted a Top X with Ties Challenge to see how our readers would approach this problem using Power Query in Excel or Power BI. I'm really glad I did this, and am thinking that I need to do...
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Creating Dynamic Parameters in Power Query
A couple of years ago, the Power Query team added Parameters as a proper object, but I kept on Creating Dynamic Parameters in Excel Power Query the same way as I always had. The reason for this is...
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Ranking Method Choices in Power Query
My recent post on showing the Top X with Ties inspired a discussion on ranking methods. Where I was looking to rank using what I now know as a standard competition rank, Daniil chose to use a dense...
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Your Voice Matters – Power Query Quality
Some time ago we embarked on a bit of a crusade to get Microsoft to fix a specific issue with Power Query related to performance. I posted about it in detail on the Power Pivot Pro blog, and have been...
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Number rows by group using Power Query
After one of my previous sorting posts, Devin asked if we can number rows by group. Actually, that's a paraphrase… what he really asked was: Any thoughts on how to produce something like a ROW_NUMBER...
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Power Pivot eBook Coming Soon
It's been a long time coming, but we are putting the finishing touches on the third installment of our free 'DIY BI' series. Consequently, we are excited to announce that the Power Pivot eBook will be...
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