Published May 16, 2022
This will be a super quick update. Finally my song has been released! I just want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped me in this whole process. Credits and appreciation time: JR Richards – for being a mentor in terms of songwriting and composition and for helping me with all the production […]
Read full article > Published May 6, 2022
If you’ve been reading my blog for quite some time, you may have noticed that I haven’t posted in a while. Ever since my process of joining Microsoft started back in May of 2021, I had to make some changes to quite a few components behind the scenes and I ended up dedicating most of […]
Read full article > Published September 30, 2021
Recently, I’ve been trying to be more active through more diverse set of communities around Power Query and the Data Preparation world. I’m still not a Microsoft employee, so I’m trying to take this time to learn. While navigating through Reddit, someone brought my attention to this thread which happens to be a challenge. During […]
Read full article > Published August 14, 2021
Ken and I have been delaying the release date for the second edition of our book ‘M is for Data Monkey’, but not anymore! 🙂 The book is finally ready and it was silently released a couple of weeks ago through various digital marketplaces. The physical copies will be available on November 1, 2021 and […]
Read full article > Published June 17, 2021
Before I dive into the topic, let me tell you my story. The Start of it all My name is Miguel Escobar. I was born and raised in Panama City, Panama – still living here and loving it. During the year 2009 my family was having a tough financial situation. I was fresh out of […]
Read full article > Published February 21, 2021
Since the inception of Power BI Custom Connectors, I’ve been drawn to coming up with new ones that could help my life and the lives of my customers. One of the most helpful custom connectors that I’ve created so far is the Power BI REST API Custom Connector (url). However, in order for people to […]
Read full article > Published February 7, 2021
A few days ago I was checking social media to find interesting cases where Power Query could be a good solution. I found this scenario posted by Brian in a Facebook group here (url). Imagine a scenario where you have a column with text values, but within each text string there are duplicates. Take the […]
Read full article > Published September 28, 2020
In 2015 Ken Puls and I (Miguel Escobar) published a book under the name ‘M is for Data Monkey’. We were (and still are!) very proud of the work that we were able to put out. We never expected our book to become the #1 book out there when it comes down to Power Query […]
Read full article > Published August 6, 2020
I recently wrote a blog post where I received the news that I was not re-awarded the Microsoft MVP award. You can read that blog post here (url). Some members of the community and even some MSFT employees took my situation very seriously and raised awareness of my case to the Microsoft Team behind the […]
Read full article > Published July 1, 2020
Update 5-Aug-2020: Due to the overwhelming support from the community, the MSFT MVP team initiated a new process to reconsider my nomination and on August 1st I was awared the Microsoft MVP award. Read more about this from this new blog post (here). I’m writing this a few hours after I received an email from […]
Read full article > Published January 19, 2020
A few years ago I posted my first impressions on Power BI Incremental refresh that was only made available for Power BI Premium licenses. The whole idea of incremental refresh is superb: You only refresh the data that you need – never again a FULL refresh needs to take place It makes your data source […]
Read full article > Published January 18, 2020
The Power BI team recently released a new endpoint for the REST API so we can get the Event Activity Log. You can read more about it from their official blog post here (url). They also made available a PowerShell cmdlets so you can query your data from it but, what if it was easier […]
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