by Chris Webb | Sep 23, 2018 | Chris Webb
This is a very short post! A lot of people have blogged about how to convert numbers between different bases in M (see for example Maxim Zelensky’s very elegant solution for converting from binary to decimal), but today I noticed there was a very easy way to convert a...
by Chris Webb | Sep 20, 2018 | Chris Webb
I was looking at the list of M functions supported in custom connectors and not in Power BI Desktop (using the technique I blogged about here) in the latest version of the Power Query SDK when I came across an intriguing new function: List.ParallelInvoke(). It doesn’t...
by Chris Webb | Sep 13, 2018 | Chris Webb
Recently I was working on an MDX calculation that calculated a value at a low granularity and aggregated the result – basically what I described in my blog post here. Here’s a simplified version of the calculation written on a cube built from Adventure Works data...
by Chris Webb | Sep 6, 2018 | Chris Webb
I don’t like writing reviews of books or products here on my blog for a couple of reasons, the main one being that I don’t usually have the time to read/test/understand something properly so I can write a thorough review. That said I do get sent a lot of free books...
by Chris Webb | Aug 30, 2018 | Chris Webb
Last year I blogged about how to use the Text.BetweenDelimiters() function to extract all the links from the href attributes in the source of a web page. The code was reasonably simple but there’s now an even easier way to solve the same problem using the new...
by Chris Webb | Aug 23, 2018 | Chris Webb
Since my post last week on using the Google Image Charts API to create sparklines and small multiples in Power BI has proved very popular, I thought I would do a follow-up showing how to use the Azure Maps API to create map small multiples. Here’s an example of what’s...
