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Display the date
Morning all,
I wonder if someone could help, I been experimenting with Power BI and Ive got to say I love, Im fairly new to both BI and SQL tho.
I am linking directly to a SQL direct Query, everything on my dashboard is perfect, apart for the Date is displayed without the day of the week, I have tried going into the formatting but DDDD is not aviable just DD.
Below is an example of what I have got :-
If anyone could walk me through it I would be most grateful. everything I have tried says cannot be performed on a Direct Query.
deliveredTotal_UnitsTriplesTghTghAreaLamFloatFloatAreaShapesGeoQLeadQSix_mmSix_mmUnitAreaOver_199
| 29/08/2017 00:00:00 | 656 | null | 337 | 657.29 | 30 | 289 | 235.06 | 28 | 24 | 17 | 17 | 32.89 | 31 |
| 01/09/2017 00:00:00 | 460 | 33 | 196 | 223.41 | null | 259 | 187.55 | null | 83 | 4 | null | null | null |
| 24/08/2017 00:00:00 | 921 | null | 422 | 709.59 | 169 | 335 | 260.76 | 32 | 47 | 18 | 9 | 21.35 | 15 |
| 30/08/2017 00:00:00 | 1197 | null | 450 | 671.78 | 59 | 688 | 535.64 | 4 | 223 | 4 | 2 | 5.18 | 23 |
| 25/08/2017 00:00:00 | 1101 | 61 | 549 | 859.08 | 84 | 469 | 385.04 | 83 | 113 | 32 | 9 | 5.02 | 19 |
| 31/08/2017 00:00:00 | 759 | 2 | 327 | 489.67 | 20 | 412 | 332.96 | 22 | 36 | 6 | 2 | 5.79 | 3 |
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Calculated Column:
Day = FORMAT(Dim_Date[Date], "dddd")
Thanks,
Any chance you could walk me through a little, ideally i would like to format to be dddd/dd/mmm
So day, then date then month ?
Hi joeydeacan
I am not 100% sure if you are able to add calculated column in direct query mode.
But normally, you can get that format by simply adding calculated column:
= FORMAT(Dim_Date[Date], "dddd/dd/mmm")
