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iamsaanvi
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How to read Tsv file from Azure Data Lake into Power BI

tried to read a tsv file from an Azure data Lake, but power BI keep telling that file format is not recognize, is there a way to specify the delimiter type (like this \t)?

 

Thank you,

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Eric_Zhang
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@iamsaanvi wrote:

tried to read a tsv file from an Azure data Lake, but power BI keep telling that file format is not recognize, is there a way to specify the delimiter type (like this \t)?

 

Thank you,


@iamsaanvi

Per my test, the file with tsv extension can be recogonized, the tab delimiter is also no issue. I don't have a Azure data lake source at hand, do you get data from "Azure data lake store"?

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Eric_Zhang
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@iamsaanvi wrote:

tried to read a tsv file from an Azure data Lake, but power BI keep telling that file format is not recognize, is there a way to specify the delimiter type (like this \t)?

 

Thank you,


@iamsaanvi

Per my test, the file with tsv extension can be recogonized, the tab delimiter is also no issue. I don't have a Azure data lake source at hand, do you get data from "Azure data lake store"?

Capture.PNG

Thank you @Eric_Zhang

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