Splitting column by delimiter

One of the most common transformation steps is Split column by delimiter. In many cases, we may need to split a column by a delimiter, such as when we have people's full names in our data. However, the business needs to have separate First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name columns. Let's look at an example. In the previous section, we converted the OrderDateTime column's type into Date. But what if the business requires us to analyze the Internet Sales data at both the Time and Date levels? We can do many things to satisfy this new requirement, such as the following:

• Create a new Time table, which can be done either using DAX (we discussed this in Chapter 2, Data Analysis eXpressions and Data Modeling, in the under Creating a Time dimension with DAX section) or within the Power Query Editor.
• Split the OrderDateTime column into two columns – one Date column and one Time column.
• Create a relationship between the Time...