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smpa01
4 years agoCommunity Champion
Bulk Renaming column in PQ with a pattern
AlexisOlson ImkeF
whenever I pull data from SSAS tables, they come as like this.
I want to bulk rename the colNames in a way that returns the value inside parenthesis
My end goal is t...
- 4 years ago
I would try this way first, in a single rename columns step using List.Zip and List.Transform.
let src=Table.FromRows( Json.Document( Binary.Decompress( Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUTICYmOlWJ1oJRMgyxSIzZRiYwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate ) ), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"db[colA]" = _t, #"db[colB]" = _t, #"db[colC]" = _t] ), #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(src,List.Zip({Table.ColumnNames(src), List.Transform(Table.ColumnNames(src), each Text.BetweenDelimiters(_, "[", "]"))})) in #"Renamed Columns"Pat
- 4 years ago
I have a custom function ShortenColumnNames that I run on all of these:
(Source as table) as table => let ColNamesList = Table.ColumnNames(Source), Transform = Table.RenameColumns(Source, List.Transform(ColNamesList, each {_, Text.BetweenDelimiters(_, "[", "]")})) in TransformSo each of my SSAS queries starts like this (I keep the DAX queries separately):
let Source = AnalysisServices.Database(Workspace, Dataset, [Query=DAXQuery, Implementation="2.0"]), RenameCols = ShortenColumnNames(Source), [...etc...]
smpa01
4 years agoCommunity Champion
Thanks mahoneypat AlexisOlson
I tested out each of our Query plan
Me, AlexisOlson and mahoneypat has exactly the same Query Plan as the following despite using different techniques. I don't know how?
I will use this
Table.TransformColumnNames(src, each Text.BetweenDelimiters(_, "[", "]"))
- mahoneypat4 years agoMicrosoft Employee
They actually generate the same list of lists, but I would go with the one from AlexisOlson too. That approach is more elegant.
Pat