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Anonymous
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can I split a column by a delimiter in Power BI DirectQuery mode?

can I split a column by a delimiter in Power BI DirectQuery mode?

how?

calculated column?

measure?

power query editor?

advanced editor?

Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("=") ?

thanks.

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Anonymous
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you mean: use Import mode?

No, use DQ with local data model.

lbendlin
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Super User

The result of your transforms must have the same structure.  If your column sometimes splits into two, and sometimes into three columns you will get an error message .

 

Better to use DAX if you need to act on the content inside the column.

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