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jaryszek
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Trying to make additional column from source table

Hi,


i am adding additional column with data source, like if SourceKind = "Web" then Csv.Document(Web.Contents([Connector]),[Delimiter=",", Encoding=1250, QuoteStyle=QuoteStyle.None]) else [Connector]) 

 

And it is working for Web files. 
But i have also Connector = 

=PostgreSQL.Database("127.0.0.1:9998", "junit")

 and from this power query seeing this as text not as source.

How to make from this string source table in additional column?

jaryszek_0-1656579292274.png

 

Please help,

Best,
Jacek

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CNENFRNL
Community Champion
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= if SourceKind = "Web" then Csv.Document(Web.Contents([Connector]),[Delimiter=",", Encoding=1250, QuoteStyle=QuoteStyle.None]) else Expression.Evaluate(Text.RemoveRange([Connector],0), [PostgreSQL.Database = PostgreSQL.Database])

 


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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jaryszek
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Post Prodigy

Thank you, interesting.

 

Jacek

CNENFRNL
Community Champion
Community Champion

 

= if SourceKind = "Web" then Csv.Document(Web.Contents([Connector]),[Delimiter=",", Encoding=1250, QuoteStyle=QuoteStyle.None]) else Expression.Evaluate(Text.RemoveRange([Connector],0), [PostgreSQL.Database = PostgreSQL.Database])

 


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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