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Gives the same result as without the AI Instructions: BUT – even though Copilot asked what “recently” meant, it still went ahead and assumed that “number of sales” meant the Count of Transactions ...
In yet another entry in my series on what you should be doing in Power BI Copilot AI Instructions, in this post I want to ...
A blog about Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services (Multidimensional and Tabular), MDX, DAX, Power Pivot, Power Query and Excel for BI ...
A blog about Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services (Multidimensional and Tabular), MDX, DAX, Power Pivot, Power Query and Excel for BI ...
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 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… ...
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 t… ...
Hi Chris and thank you for your quick answer. I really appreciate it since this is kind of an urgent issue. Your recommendation will work fine if user chooses date, client and product at the same time ...
In my recent post on web services in Power Query I mentioned that while the Power Query Web.Contents() function generates a GET request by default, you can make it generate a POST request by specif… ...
In the last two posts in this series I showed how removing columns from the tables used in a Power Query merge operation can improve refresh performance. In this post I’ll show you a different trick ...
[Update September 2023: now that Power BI is part of Microsoft Fabric, the new features of Fabric make it much easier to solve this problem as described here] Power BI incremental refresh is a very ...