Power BI Copilot knows about the relationship between measures and tables, which means that it’s very good at knowing which ...

A blog about Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services (Multidimensional and Tabular), MDX, DAX, Power Pivot, Power Query and Excel for BI ...

Gives the same result as without the AI Instructions: BUT – even though Copilot asked what “recently” meant, it still went ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: Expression.Error: The key didn’t match any rows in the table It can occur with almos… ...

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 coul… ...

The Web.Contents() function in M is the key to getting data from web pages and web services, and has a number of useful – but badly documented – options that make it easier to construct urls for yo… ...

One of the most confusing, under-documented and widely-misunderstood features of Power BI and Power Query (or Excel “Get & Transform” or whatever you want to call it) are the data privacy settings. I ...

Here’s the problem description. If you define a calculated measure in MDX, that calculation will take place after the real measure values have all aggregated. For example, consider a super-simple cube ...

One of many cool things about Power Query is the way that it allows you to retrieve data from web services and load it into Excel. While this is a subject that lots of people (including me) have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jason Thomas and Gerhard Brueckl have both blogged on the subject of storing images as text inside a Power BI dataset: Since they wrote those posts, however, Power BI has added the ability to set the ...