Did you know that data analysts spend up to 80% of their time cleaning and preparing data? If you’re nodding in agreement, you’re not alone. The good news is that tools like Power Query in Excel and ...

Power BI's Copilot can help generate and explain DAX, create visuals, accelerate analysis and assist with data transformation, but Thomas LeBlanc says developers still need to validate every result.

While the paper was commissioned by Microsoft it was written by an independent expert, Liping Huang, who has extensive expertise with Power BI and Databricks and who has worked for both Microsoft and ...

Have you ever stared at a massive dataset, only to realize it’s riddled with empty columns that serve no purpose? It’s a frustrating scenario—one that wastes time, clutters your workflow, and makes ...

Many people avoid Power Query because they think it's too technical, but it's actually one of the safest and easiest ways to organize your data. It handles the dirty work with an intuitive interface, ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query’s extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

In 2026, Microsoft Power BI remains the world’s most popular business intelligence platform, used by over 200,000 customers ...

In this post, we will show you how to reorder multiple columns in Power Query with Drag & Drop. Often when importing data from various sources, columns may not be in the desired order. Reordering ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

You can enter data into a Microsoft Excel sheet or run a bit of M code in Microsoft Excel Power Query when you need to create a table. Updating data in a Microsoft Excel workbook is common, but you ...