Power Query has more than 80 data sources supported, and Microsoft Exchange is one of those data sources. Although it is not a new data source, however, the power of this data source combined with the data transformation power of Power Query is not clear for everyone. Using this data source, you can get all Read more about Import Email Attachments Directly Into a Power BI Report using Power Query[…]
There is always a discussion on how to store back the data from Power BI to local computer or SQL Server Databases, in this short blog, I will show how to do it by writing R scripts inside Power Query. First how to Store Files to PC To store data back to a file Read more about Export data from Power Query to Local Machine or SQL Server using R scripts[…]
Does it take a long time to get your data refreshed in your Power BI model? Should you wait for hours for the refresh to finish because you have complex transformations behind the scene? Does the long refresh time make it hard for you to develop your solution? The good news I have for you Read more about How to Use Dataflow to Make the Refresh of Power BI Solution FASTER![…]
In the first part of this series, you learned how to create an exception reporting for a column in a table using Power Query in Power BI. In the second part, you learned how to initiate that process for all columns in a table. This article continues the section one of creating exception reporting for Read more about Exception Reporting in Power Query and Power BI; Part 2 Catching Error Rows for All Columns in the Table Section 2[…]
Previously, I have written about using Power Query transformations and functions to create an Exception report for Power BI. However, the method I mentioned there, was only doing the exception handling based on one column. In this article, I’m explaining how to do exception reporting for all columns in the entire table. There are a Read more about Exception Reporting in Power Query and Power BI; Part 2 Catching Error Rows for All Columns in the Table Section 1[…]
I have previously written about What dataflow is and scenarios of using it. I also wrote an article about Computed Entity and the important role of that for performance and data lineage. However, a Computed entity is a premium-only feature. There are sometimes that you don’t really need premium functions of Power BI, and only Read more about Workaround for Computed Entity in Power BI Pro: Dataflow in Power BI[…]
The article that I wrote earlier this week about the shared dimension had a lot of interest, and I’m glad it helped many of you. So I thought better to write about the basics of modeling even more. In this article, I will be focusing on a scenario that you have all faced, however, took Read more about Combining Dimension Tables in Power BI using Power Query: Basics and Foundations of Modeling[…]
For a data warehouse professional, a shared dimension concept is always clear, and a star schema design always includes such type of entity. However, in the Power BI user’s world, there are many users who are not coming from a data warehousing background. It is necessary to understand some of the concepts in order to Read more about Creating a Shared Dimension in Power BI Using Power Query: Basics and Foundations of Modeling[…]
One of the most common transformations in Power Query is the Remove Duplicates. This transformation is used in many scenarios, one of the examples, is to create a dimension table with unique IDs in it, so can be used as the source of a one to many relationships to fact tables in the relationship diagram Read more about Remove Duplicate Doesn’t Work in Power Query for Power BI? Here is the Solution![…]
In previous articles, I explained what is the Dataflow and where to use it, I also explained how to create a dataflow, and what is the common data model. In this article, I’m explaining one of the differences between Dataflow and the Power Query in Power BI Desktop, which is Linked Entities and Computed Entities. Read more about Linked Entities and Computed Entities; Dataflows in Power BI Part 4[…]