Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI - with Material - Basic Date M Functions

This video tutorial covers the use of basic and advanced M functions in Power Query, focusing on date-related functions. It explains how to find day, month, year, and other date components using custom columns. The tutorial highlights the use of M Intellisense for function suggestions and demonstrates how to apply these functions in Power BI. The video concludes with a summary of the discussed functions and their practical applications.

What is the first step in setting up a query in Power Query to extract date information?

• Load data and duplicate the query

• Create a new workbook

• Export data to Excel

• Delete all previous queries

Which prefix is essential for all M functions related to dates?

• month

• time

• date

• day

How can you extract the month from a date using M functions?

• Use the function date.day

• Use the function date.week

• Use the function date.month

• Use the function date.year

What feature in newer versions of Power Query helps with function suggestions?

• Query Helper

• M Intellisense

• AutoComplete

• Function Wizard

Which function would you use to get the name of the day from a date?

• date.year

• date.dayOfWeekName

• date.month

• date.day