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Date table relationship not working perfectly
Hi,
I have a SQL data table I'm pulling from Navision 2015. I then have it linked to a calendar table (I started with one that I created myself in excel, then also tried moving to one created in power BI).
Everything looked like it was working fine. I can filter by months, and years etc. Then I noticed there is a small number of rows that don't relate properly to the calendar table.
For examle, If I was to filter on July 2017, I would get all the sales for July 2017, but then also get some transactions with a date of 8/1/17, 9/1/17 and 11/1/17. It seems that the extra dates are aways on the first of some other month. Also, not all months have this problem.
If I go into the table detail (where I added some extra relationship columns to pull over month and year from the calendar table). I can clearly see 8/1/17 as going to July 2017
But if I go to the calendar table, 8/1/17 is clearly going to August 2017 as it should be.
If I go into edit query, both sets of dates are set as date. I've also tried setting both as date time. Still same problem.
Any ideas?
4 Replies
- AnonymousNot applicable
Anonymous will probably need to see the power bi file. can you plz post that here.
- AnonymousNot applicable
Sorry I can't post our sales data. Management would be very upset.
- AnonymousNot applicable
Anonymous remove the confidential stuff and try to recreate the error with dummy data.
- AnonymousNot applicable
One other note, when I look at the data set in power pivot this error doesn't occur. So I'm thinking this must be a power BI error.