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unais's avatar
unais
Helper V
5 years ago

Query With Binary Column to Text

Team,

Advise how can we convert a Column Value With Binary Data to Text Value.

 

 

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  • mahoneypat's avatar
    mahoneypat
    Microsoft Employee

    At the top of that column with the Binaries, there should be a double arrow you can click to Combine & Transform those files.  That will create new queries (and a function) you can use to transform an example file that will be applied to all the files.

     

    Or, if you know what type of files they are, you can add a custom column with the appropriate function (e.g., Excel.Workbook(),  Csv.Document(), etc) to open them.

     

    Pat

    • unais's avatar
      unais
      Helper V

      Data is Binary Compressed Data  while changing the format to text as below

       

      • unais's avatar
        unais
        Helper V

        any way we can import Compressed SQL Column Data in to Power BI

    • mahoneypat's avatar
      mahoneypat
      Microsoft Employee

      What type of files are these?  You can try to add a custom column with Text.FromBinary([CLUSTD]) to see if there is human readable content inside.

      Pat