Split One column into multiple columns

[Anonymous]

HI,

I am new to power bi and sql. Im working on power bi audit log report file. The file contains a column 'AuditDate'  n it has multiple columns in it, I need to split that column into multiple columns  using sql. 

the column has values like this

AuditDate

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"{""Id"":""44de2468"",""RecordType"":20,""CreationTime"":""2018-08-03T12:30:34"",""Operation"":""ViewReport"",""OrganizationId"":""779558"",""UserType"":0,""UserKey"":""FFFA3DA"",""Workload"":""PowerBI"",""UserId"":""john@abc.com"",""ClientIP"":""9.5.3.26"",""UserAgent"":""Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0;"",""Activity"":""ViewReport"",""ItemName"":""Sales"",""WorkSpaceName"":""TeamITO"",""DatasetName"":""Sales1"",""ReportName"":""Sales1"",""WorkspaceId"":""e8eaa0ca"",""ObjectId"":""Sales1"",""DatasetId"":""4c5d-ad45-eb6546"",""ReportId"":""4cb0-99ad-de41b5160c47"",""IsSuccess"":true,""DatapoolRefreshScheduleType"":""None"",""DatapoolType"":""Undefined""}"

basically i need to split this column into 

id                RecordType       CreationTime                   Operaration     OrganizationID  UserType

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44de2468        20                2018-08-03T12:30:34         ViewReport        779558               0

can anyone help with the sql query for this?

[v-shex-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

You can direct handle these text value in query edit.

Fully query:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("bZFbb4IwFMe/iuFpD4OVq5e9zGlMyDI1gvNBfCjtUeuAklJndNl3H5aOuMSEl/L7X3p61mvjOzFCmhiDxPA8Co4X9BLjMTEWQLig8bmEmjmo/jMSgCXjRcxyUHoH2T0T1Z8b287ARQPXU9ZZCUIpleqDwWkBJReygWKHC3ZRXPd2u33fb1qXFQjdifTxDc5KNZlMhu54qGQrLj4zjhv7nJ9AvIatX6ce+L54wSmxCM8VG2UMChnOFe1bvuVaTtC6hrsaKvTOLyzLcJI8+RbqPKxYQfmp6kzjjo0s9KwcQyLZF5PnexOGEvIp1m8U4Qyq9s5RiQm0LAach/FM0TGWuAL532frTVyj75FrZHWN1CNDDzBGBDcPnR6ASE1uTLrpb+fEpyamnm9CGvhecNPYKlJk9vuYmhQ8O/XtABGv20xaRUdCoKoHHEhxBJ1ecp4tYCug2kdkD/SYgd5pYkx5Ae01rsKWLAsKW1ZA3fpjbDa/", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [AuditDate = _t]),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", each Json.Document([AuditDate])),
    #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom", {"Id", "RecordType", "CreationTime", "Operation", "OrganizationId", "UserType"}, {"Id", "RecordType", "CreationTime", "Operation", "OrganizationId", "UserType"}),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Expanded Custom",{"AuditDate"})
in
    #"Removed Columns"

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[moonpie100]

Hi.

I am not sure if this will work or not. But I thought I would give it a shot.

Click on Edit Queries.

Make sure that you have the table where data is stored selected, and then click on the column you wish to split.

Then Click on the Split Column Icon.

It looks as though your data fields are separated by commas, so choose the comma option under 'Select or enter delimiter'

and then select the 'Each Occurence of the delimiter' where it says split at. 

And then click on OK.

I hope this helps.