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Converting date format from direct query

I have a date format that is in a string as: mm/dd/yyyy 00:00:00 (always is 00) how can I parse out a new column from this just as the mm/dd/yyyy? the data is a direct query so i cannot u...
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    5 years ago

    Hudg16 Oh yeah, you would need to create a calculated column or measure like:

    Column = LEFT([Date],SEARCH(" ",[Date])-1)
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rodrigosan Greg_Deckler 

My apologies, the data is in a direct query from another bi dataset, thus I cannot use Power Query. Any other ideas? 

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5 years ago

Hudg16 Oh yeah, you would need to create a calculated column or measure like:

Column = LEFT([Date],SEARCH(" ",[Date])-1)