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Using Data Explorer with SSIS
Data Explorer is a great new add-on for Excel. It provides a simple interface over a power data transformation engine (powered by M), and it has become my tool of choice anytime I need to get data into...
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Filtering in Data Explorer
I was been manning the Data Discovery & Visualization and Data Warehousing booths at TechEd Europe last week, and we saw lots of excitement over Data Explorer. One of the questions I got was about...
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Presenting at SharePoint Conference 2014
I’m looking forward to attending and presenting at my first SharePoint Conference next week in Las Vegas! I’ll be presenting two Power BI deep dive sessions (1): #SPC397 – Deep Dive on the Data...
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Defining Configurable Settings for your Queries
(The information in this blog post is current as of the March 2014 release of Power Query.) The Problem A colleague sent me a copy of the Excel workbook they used for a blog post about using Power...
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Notepad++ language file for the Power Query formula language (“M”)
Power Query doesn’t have syntax highlighting in its advanced editor (yet?). In the meantime, here is a language file for Notepad++. It’s not perfect, but I find it useful when writing M queries. It...
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Converting a Query to a Function in Power Query
You can turn a query into a function by adding a single line before your M query: () => That is a pair of parenthesis ( () ), followed by a goes-to symbol ( => ). Any parameters for your function...
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Iterating over multiple pages of web data using Power Query
This is one of my go-to demos for showing off the Power Query Formula Language (M). This approach works well with websites that spread data over multiple pages, and have one or more query parameters to...
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Iterating over an unknown number of pages in Power Query
My previous blog post showed how to iterate over a set of web pages in Power Query using a parameterized function. The post contained two queries – the GetData function, and a query to invoke it over a...
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Parsing Binary data using Power Query formulas
The Power Query formula language (M) contains a number of library functions that allow you to parse binary data. You can use these functions to build queries which parse custom binary file formats....
View ArticleM Language File for WordPress Crayon Syntax Highlighter
@cjkoester kindly reminded me that I created an M language file for the fantastic Crayon Syntax Highlighter wordpress plugin that I use on my site. I’ve made it available on my OneDrive share… simply...
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