Edit 03 Aug 2016: With the July 2016 release you can now run your R-scripts directly in the query-editor (so no row-limit any more!). No need to go via the (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘Power Query’
Visualize dependencies between your DAX measures: DAX-VizArt-Wizard
This DAX-VizArt-Wizard vizualizes dependencies between your DAX measures, shows the definition of all related measures and shows differences between the measures of 2 models/versions. This works for Power Pivot, Power BI (…) Read more
Power Query & Power BI are ideal learning paths from Excel to R
Reading Jen Stirrup’s great article about the learning path for SQL Server 2016 and R I ended up learning my first R pieces from this wonderful post that she has referenced. (…) Read more
Tip for Parameter Tables in Power Query and Power BI
Parameter tables in Excel are normally set up like this: In order to retrieve the currency for example, you could write this: = Parameters[Value]{2} This returns the content of the “Value”-column of (…) Read more
Happy Spreadsheet Day! (Or how to escape Excel-hell)
When reading horror-stories about Excel-hell describing how dangerous it is to use Excel in corporate environments, I cannot help but to think of this hilarious video describing the fatal consequences of acting without (…) Read more
How to auto-parametrize your Power Query queries
This is about a technique that I’m going to use in my upcoming articles on ICT reconciliation. But as it is useful in other areas as well, it’s getting its own post (…) Read more