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Custom Column, DATEDIFF, TODAY....nothing works?
You can try the below exprssion in DAX but not in Power Query.
elapsedDays = DATEDIFF( [EmailDate],TODAY() , DAY)
And I know I can solve this by adding columns into the underlying database (or adding views) but I don't want to do that and it kind of defeats the purpose of a BI tool surely.
Or even directly in the query, no need to add columns to the underlying table.
select emaildate,datediff(day,emaildate,getdate()) elapsedDays from testdb.dbo.tableDate
You can try the below exprssion in DAX but not in Power Query.
elapsedDays = DATEDIFF( [EmailDate],TODAY() , DAY)
And I know I can solve this by adding columns into the underlying database (or adding views) but I don't want to do that and it kind of defeats the purpose of a BI tool surely.
Or even directly in the query, no need to add columns to the underlying table.
select emaildate,datediff(day,emaildate,getdate()) elapsedDays from testdb.dbo.tableDate
Eric_Zhang Nice. Glad to have another way to do this.
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