If you want to collect your regularly loaded data without overwriting it or create a load log that writes the load activites with a timestamp into a table, you need to (…) Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Excel’
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
How to compare everything with everything using Power BI or Power Query
A question in Mr. Excel-Forum about how to design your data model if you want to compare values from 10 different (fact-) tables with each other got me curious: (…) Read more