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I used Power Query to pull all of the unique Item Types tested in the past month: let Source = Sql.Database("XXX", "YYY"), dbo_tblTest = Source{[Schema="dbo",Item="tblTest"]}[Data], #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(dbo_tblTest, each Date.IsInPreviousNMonths([Test_Stop], 1)), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Filtered Rows", "Custom", each Text.Start([Item],5)), #"Removed Duplicates" = Table.Distinct(#"Added Custom", {"Custom"}) in #"Removed Duplicates" To get: Test_ID --- Item --- Test_Start --- Test_Stop --- Custom 2585048 --- B1846-6-02 --- 1/14/2014 12:46 --- 6/25/2015 14:28 --- B1846

In PowerQuery I need to import a fixed width txt file (each line is the concatenation of a number of fields, each field has a fixed specific length). When I import it I get a table with one single column that contains the txt lines, e.g. in the following format: AAAABBCCCCCDDD I want to add more columns in this way: Column1: AAAA Column2: BB Column3: CCCCC Column4: DDD In other words the fields composing the source column are of known length, but this length is not the same for all fields (in the example above the lengths are: 4,2,5,3). I'd like to use the "Split Column">"By number of

I want to check in a powerquery new column if a string like "This is a test string" contains any of the strings list items {"dog","string","bark"} . I already tried Text.PositionOfAny("This is a test string",{"dog","string","bark"}) , but the function only accepts single-character values Expression.Error: The value isn't a single-character string. Any solution for this? This is a case where you'll want to combine a few M library functions together. You'll want to use Text.Contains many times against a list, which is a good case for List.Transform . List.AnyTrue will tell you if any string

The default behaviour when importing data from a database table (such as SQL Server) is to bring in all columns and then select which columns you would like to remove. Is there a way to do the reverse? ie Select which columns you want from a table? Preferably without using a Native SQL solution. M: let db = Sql.Databases("sqlserver.database.url"){[Name="DatabaseName"]}[Data], Sales_vDimCustomer = db{[Schema="Sales",Item="vDimCustomer"]}[Data], remove_columns = Table.RemoveColumns(Sales_vDimCustomer,{"Key", "Code","Column1","Column2","Column3","Column4","Column5","Column6","Column7","Column8",

Is there a way to overcome Power BI export limit of max 150k rows? Limit docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/visuals/power-bi-visualization-export-data#limitations-and-considerations Voting for PBI improvement: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/18432742-increase-export-data-limits Ok, I got through with that. It is possible. You should be familiar with R and SQL Server to do that. The example below exports 201k rows directly form PBI to SQL Server. Install RODBC package in R. For those who want to do that from scratch, please check the reference

however I have looked from the web I cant find a simple(!) example that would show how to use and have a SQL query that would use in the WHERE a dynamic parameter value. What I'm looking for is that the end user would be able to change a value in the column in the spreadsheet (ParameterTable?) and refresh the data using this new value as a parameter. Perhaps an example describes best what I'm after. I would have a table in excel that would have two columns, named ParameterName and ParameterValue. These would then have values PARM1 and 1 (Sorry but appears that I cant post an image here) The

I am trying to use Power Query to download an Odata Feed that I created using .net Web Api 2 and the OData v4 nuget package. I'm trying to access an Odata feed that requires authentication. When I edit the authentication type in power query, I'm never seeing the authentication key come through in the request. How do you configure Power Query to use a specific type of authentication? Bonus: I'm using OAuth, so how would I configure power query to send in a header with auth data that includes "Authorization Bearer:token_here" Web API credentials are for putting a secret value into to the URL