Brent Jones
Performance of Dynamic M Query Parameters
Initially I thought this could improve the report latency/speed for reports using direct query mode. After all, Microsoft themselves say...
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The Antares Alien
Power BI | Game Development
The Antares Alien
Power BI | Game Development
Blarg! Here, I write about Power BI stuff in a fun and unique way. I also occasionally write about video game development. Thanks for checking out my blog!
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Brent Jones
- Jan 23, 2022
Making Power Query More Dynamic: The Magic of Lists
Lists can be used to make Power Query more dynamic, like dynamically renaming or reordering columns.
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Brent Jones
- Aug 7, 2021
Power BI: How to Remove Duplicates and Keep Most Recent?
How to remove duplicate records while ensuring that you keep the most recent item?
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Brent Jones
- Apr 17, 2021
Calculating Business Days and Hours Between Two Dates (Power Query)
Here is a Power Query custom function to calculate the number of hours. All you need to do is just copy and paste this code into a blank que
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Brent Jones
- Jun 27, 2020
Power BI: How to Improve Refresh Speed
When working with Power BI, sometimes the refresh speed is excruciatingly slow.
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Brent Jones
- Jun 19, 2020
Power BI: Easily Find a Column Name with this Function
I was recently working on a project where there were over 28 thousand tables in the database.
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Brent Jones
- Sep 23, 2019
2 Easy Steps to Loop with Power Query! List.Accumulate()
Here's the situation: I have a list of values (text/string). I want to create one single concatenated string based on that list.
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Brent Jones
- Jun 8, 2019
Exploring "Overtourism" with Power BI (Part 1)
The alien walks us through a comparison of increases in tourism per country per year. Also go over some Power Query and DAX tips including A
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Brent Jones
- Apr 26, 2019
Power BI's "Automagical" Column From Example Feature (for any web page!)
Power BI has a somewhat hidden feature you may not have know existed - or maybe you knew about it but haven't given it a thought to try
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Brent Jones
- Apr 8, 2019
Power Query: Merged Tables, Aggregate and Non-Aggregate Values
Why Power Query doesn't give you the option to expand a merged table with both non-aggregate values AND aggregate values. Let's take
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Brent Jones
- Nov 24, 2018
Improbably Unhelpful Power Query / M Custom Functions that You Might Not Never Use.
This is a collection of Power Query / M functions that I've used in the past. I'm using this article as an open collection so that y
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Brent Jones
- Nov 12, 2018
Power BI: Top 10 Companies in GA - Plus Nested Queries
How do the top 10 companies in GA and their respective tax payment in 2018 line up? Plus, a look at nesting queries within queries.
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Brent Jones
- Sep 21, 2018
Get Worksheet Data In the Current Workbook With Power Query
You may already be familiar with the "Get Data" function in Excel. You can use this feature to send data from your worksheet to Po
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Brent Jones
- Aug 22, 2018
Power BI: Creating a Function with Python
Read about how to create a Python function in Power Query!
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Brent Jones
- Aug 20, 2018
Power BI: Building a Digital Nomad Dashboard
Read about how to make a Power BI dashboard to help you make a decision on the best countries to visit for a Digital Nomad Excursion!
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Brent Jones
- Aug 16, 2018
Power BI: Using Python to Get Your Data
Find out how you can write Python code inside the Advanced query editor with Python.Execute()
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Brent Jones
- Aug 13, 2018
Power Query: Preventing "The column of the table wasn't found" error
Read about how to prevent errors resulting from column name changing.
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Brent Jones
- Aug 9, 2018
How to Make a Cells Value a Power Query Parameter
Create easily editable parameters in Excel for Power Query to help your users. Use a named range in Excel for the query source. You can then
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