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Get queries from data flow

Looking for a way to extract queries from data flows from PowerBI without keeping the formatted text that is pasted on there.   When I try to simply copy and paste the query from the dataflow there are all different sorts of "#lf"s for example that are inherent to the format.   Any way to extract just the raw queries?

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otravers
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Yes, if you click the gear icon next to the source step, you'll see the original SQL query without the line feed characters:

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otravers
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Is your spoiler block meant to include a screenshot? It looks blank when I expand it.

 

Are you talking about native SQL queries in your dataflow's M code?

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Yes, I'm talking about how when a query is inserted into a data flow and I then view the query's within the "edit tables" interface of the data flow,  I am unable to see the native queries but only the queries with the data flow formatted characters inserted.  Is there any away I can view the queries without the data flow formatted characters once they're in the data flow?

 

thanks 

otravers
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Yes, if you click the gear icon next to the source step, you'll see the original SQL query without the line feed characters:

otravers_0-1675608074183.png

 

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2. Learning how to fish > being spoon-fed without active thinking.
3. Please accept as a solution posts that resolve your questions.
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Thanks so much!  

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