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unais
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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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unais
Helper V
Helper V

 

refer below 

 

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mahoneypat
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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.

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mahoneypat
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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.

 

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

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

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