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Peter_23
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Change strings in power bi reports

Hi community, I have one colum type clob (oracle) it cointains string too long, examples: "Thank you"; "thank you", etc. in the source and power query I have many rows withs the strings (examples) differents rows as meaning the same thing. But in the data view, in power bi desktop, the same string as showing as: "thank you", e.g. chansing the uppercaser to lowercase. 😞 

 

Source and power query.

 

ID_transactionID_personstring_person
00112Thank you
00213thank you

 

Data view inside power bi

ID_transactionID_personstring_person
00112thank you
00213thank you

   

 

is there anyway to avoid this issue?

 

thank in advance.

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OwenAuger
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Hi @Peter_23 

 

In short, if values that differ only in case are added to the column of a table, the engine will treat these values as equivalent, and they will be loaded using the "first" case encountered.

 

This article provides a good description of the issue:

https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/letter-case-sensitivity-in-dax-power-bi-and-analysis-services/

The comments under that article include some possible workarounds, such as this:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/solution-powerbi-case-insensitivity-marco-parravano


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Peter_23
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thanks @OwenAuger  I'll try.

OwenAuger
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Super User

Hi @Peter_23 

 

In short, if values that differ only in case are added to the column of a table, the engine will treat these values as equivalent, and they will be loaded using the "first" case encountered.

 

This article provides a good description of the issue:

https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/letter-case-sensitivity-in-dax-power-bi-and-analysis-services/

The comments under that article include some possible workarounds, such as this:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/solution-powerbi-case-insensitivity-marco-parravano


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