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
How to refresh Power Queries on protected sheets in Excel
When working with Power Query in Excel you might want to refresh Power Queries on protected sheets. But this will not work by default. Using a macro to temporarily unprotect (…) Read more
Improve File Import from SharePoint in Power BI and Power Query
When you use the UI to import files from SharePoint, you’ll end up with the Sharepoint.Files function. This function can become fairly or super slow when you use it on (…) Read more
Convert DateTime to ISO 8601 date and time strings in Power Query
Often, when querying APIs it is required to enter date and time filters in ISO 8601 format . Today I show a quick way to convert DateTime to ISO 8601 string, (…) Read more
Retrieve header fields like response status from Web.Contents in Power BI and Power Query
Many Power Query function not only return their values as advertised in their function documentation, but on top of that a metadata record. This record is like tag that holds (…) Read more
Split up an existing Power BI report into a Golden Dataset and a thin report
The other day I discovered a neat way to split up an existing Power BI report into a Golden Dataset and a thin report file with very few adjustments to (…) Read more