Today I could not edit any dataflows for a client and was constantly getting “… prod.powerquery.microsoft.com refused to connect”: Twitterverse to the rescue After a couple of unsuccessful trials (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘Power Query’
Power BI Cleaner now fully covers Calculation Groups
You can now download a new version of my Power BI Cleaner tool that finally covers usage of DAX expressions in Calculation Groups as well. For an introduction into this (…) Read more
Workaround to connect to Power BI dataflows from Power Query in Excel
Currently, we cannot connect to Power BI dataflows from Excel Power Query. And as we also cannot use custom connectors in there, we need a different alternative. I’m going to (…) Read more
Extract only letters from a mixed string in Power Query and Power BI
This is a quick method about extracting only letters from a string. It is part of the Week2 “Preppin’ data” challenge. Task for extracting letters from a string Image you (…) Read more
Clean up or harmonize mis- or differently spelled category data with Power Query
A typical problem with data that has been created by manual entries is that category values are often misspelled or missed. So in this article I’m showing a very powerful (…) Read more
Your Oracle data import in Power BI and Power Query is slow?
If you’re using the native Oracle connector in Power Query, you will probably experience a very slow import performance. Thanks to Tristan Malherbe for recommending to use the OleDB-connector in (…) Read more