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KamKam
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5 years ago
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How to Automate Binary Extraction into Seperate Queries

Hi Power BI Community,   I have a dataset that has a column with Binary values in it. When I click on one of the binary values it opens an entirely new table. I would like to extract the data in th...
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  • selimovd's avatar
    selimovd
    5 years ago

    Hey KamKam ,

     

    yes, the files have to have the same format.

    But if you want to automate things, they anyway have to have the same format. If every file is different you have to load one by one and then after you changed the files you can combine them again.

     

    Does this help you?

    If you need any help please let me know.
    If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution āœ”ļø and give it a thumbs up šŸ‘
     
    Best regards
    Denis
     
KamKam's avatar
KamKam
Frequent Visitor
5 years ago

Hi selimovd,

 

You are right. It did pull the correct amount of rows. However, it has only made columns for the first Binary value. The other Binary values have different columns in them.

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For example, this is what the first table looks like:

 

 

And here is the second:

 

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selimovd's avatar
selimovd
Most Valuable Professional
5 years ago

Hey KamKam ,

 

yes, the files have to have the same format.

But if you want to automate things, they anyway have to have the same format. If every file is different you have to load one by one and then after you changed the files you can combine them again.

 

Does this help you?

If you need any help please let me know.
If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution āœ”ļø and give it a thumbs up šŸ‘
 
Best regards
Denis
 
  • KamKam's avatar
    KamKam
    Frequent Visitor
    5 years ago

    Thanks selimovd,

     

    Do you think that I could automate this using M Lanugage? If so, do you know how to create a new Query using M Language?

    • selimovd's avatar
      selimovd
      Most Valuable Professional
      5 years ago

      Hey KamKam ,

       

      you can do a lot with M and the functions.

      What format do your binary files have?

       

      Best regards

      Denis

      • KamKam's avatar
        KamKam
        Frequent Visitor
        5 years ago

        Thank you selimovd.

         

        I ended up doing it manually.

         

        I don't think that Power BI is the tool for ingesting the large amount of data that I was working with. When I clicked on Save & Apply in the Query Editor my machine ran out of RAM.

         

        I will have to find a new tool for cleaning the data.

         

        Thank you for your assistance.