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Hello. I am having an issue when I attemp to do a data refresh from the PBI browser based tool. It refreshes fine from the desktop I am getting the following error:
Data source error: | Not a legal OleAut date.. The exception was raised by the IDataReader interface. Table: hbdg customer_order_line_item. |
I found and fixed some obvious date problems where the year obviously wrong (0217 instead of 2017, etc.), but am still getting the error on this table. I have many entries where the date shows NULL and many where the date shows 0000-00-00 and my question is does anyone know if the zeros can cause the refresh to fail? Thanks!
J
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Yes, this would cause an error (see this thread).
The easiest way to fix it without doing it manually:
- Open the query editor
- Click the Add Column tab and click Cusom Column.
- Enter:
if [Date] > #date(1900, 1, 1) then [Date] else null
(if your Date column is called something else, replace [Date] with your column name
- Copy the name of the old Date Column
- Delete the old Date column
- Rename the new column as exactly what the old column was (that you copied)
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Yes, this would cause an error (see this thread).
The easiest way to fix it without doing it manually:
- Open the query editor
- Click the Add Column tab and click Cusom Column.
- Enter:
if [Date] > #date(1900, 1, 1) then [Date] else null
(if your Date column is called something else, replace [Date] with your column name
- Copy the name of the old Date Column
- Delete the old Date column
- Rename the new column as exactly what the old column was (that you copied)
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