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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Data type is wrong?

Hi guys! First of all Happy New Year.   I´m working on a report for my work which has a lot of projects with their respective last update on the database. I´m making a function that calculates the ...
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  • MarcelBeug's avatar
    MarcelBeug
    8 years ago

    Nowhere. It was just an example to illustrate the solution.

     

    In your case, go to the Query Editor, select your column with textual dates and adjust the data type using Locale.

     

    The video below illustrates how; it starts already in the Query Editor.

     

    Here is the Query Editor

     

     

     

Interkoubess's avatar
Interkoubess
Solution Sage
8 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

What about using the datediff function for this issue...

 

Let us know

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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8 years ago

Days since Last Update = DATEDIFF(TODAY(),'TPA Portfolio'[Last Update Date],DAY)

 

And I´m getting: In DATEDIFF function, the start date cannot be greater than the end date

 

I think the Power BI is messing between the date format of my PC (which is English format mm/dd/yyyy) and the format of the data base

  • MarcelBeug's avatar
    MarcelBeug
    Community Champion
    8 years ago

    Check the syntax of the DATEDIFF function.

     

    The start date should be supplied first.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      8 years ago

      I dont think that the syntax is the problem. I'm guessing that the problem is on the date formats.

      • MarcelBeug's avatar
        MarcelBeug
        Community Champion
        8 years ago

        In that case you have more than 1 problem.

         

        You can convert text dates to real dates in the Query Editor.

         

        And still you need to provide the earlier date as the first parameter to DATEDIFF.

         

        You may think otherwise, but the syntax is quite clear:

         

        DATEDIFF(<start_date>, <end_date>, <interval>)

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