Since I wrote about the Snowflake query tags generated by Power BI earlier this year, one important piece of functionality ...

Following on from my post two weeks ago about how to get the details of Power BI operations seen in the Capacity Metrics App using the OperationId column on the Timepoint Detail page, I thought it was ...

Following on from my post two weeks ago about how to get the details of Power BI operations seen in the Capacity Metrics App using the OperationId column on the Timepoint Detail page, I thought it was ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...

My posts from two weeks ago (see here and here) on using Process Monitor to troubleshoot the performance of Power Query queries made me wonder about another question: how does the performance of ...

There are a lot of articles and blog posts out there on how to handle OAuth2 authentication when connecting to REST APIs from Power Query in Power BI. However there is also a lot of confusion and ...

One very common requirement when creating a Power BI report is the ability to apply a filter for the current day, week, month, quarter or year. There are several ways of implementing this: you could ...

Merging (or, in SQL terms, joining) tables in Power Query is a common cause of refresh performance problems. I’ve often wondered whether there’s anything you can do to optimise the performance of ...

In the first two parts of this series (see here and here) I showed how Power BI/Power Query/Excel Get & Transform’s data privacy settings can influence whether query folding takes place or even ...

When you connect to a relational database like SQL Server in Power BI/Power Query/Excel Get & Transform you have two choices about how to get the data you need: You can choose a table from the ...

Recently I had a request for help from someone who wanted to do the following in Power Query: take a piece of text and then, using a table, search for all of the occurrences of the words in one column ...